John David California lives alone, becalmed on a sea of irreverent facts and pop-culture obsessions. Working at an online dating site, he lives for the hours when he can join his IM friend Diane in a link-leaping quest to connect all knowledge via Wikipedia. Behind him, never entirely hidden by the whirl of interconnected trivia, looms the wreckage of his true self. The scars of a broken relationship and the crippled masterwork that might have killed his idol, haunt him no matter how many other people he becomes. But when a series of dates arranged through his employer's website reveals to him the sensual risks of human relationships, the euphoria of a single idea, powerful enough to break down his self-imposed isolation, hauls him back to the fleshly life. Following the unlikely links between a dwarf musician, a dead author, Tom Hulce, and his chilly boss, J. D. traces the threads of meaning...
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