"But you see," Abe went on, "that's exactly why I got out of the business end of things, why Cynnie & I split up. She felt like there were golden opportunities waiting for someone with her skills set and that as long as I was holding her down, not allowing her to implement those skills at the GRAMMATRON headquarters, then she was not living up to the potential of her learning curve. That's how she always referred to it: living up to the potential of her learning-curve. I think she just wanted to try becoming a corpo-slave. There's something very attractive about it, really, when you come to think of it. Meanwhile, I was stuck in this isolationist mode of thinking that stood firm with the principle that only by focusing on the creative development of the work itself could one even begin to explore the possibilities of a learning-growth curve. The curve of consciousness was where I was routing my energy, Ms. A, and Cynnie, although she was attracted to it early on, felt that it impeded progress. This is what the lure of corpo-slave culture does to you."