Chapter 2 Sweet Nothings A/E is a work full of detail and minutia, as well as minor inaccuracies.
Take, for example, Al Cross's death.				It occurs before the middle of A/E, prior to Cross's discovery of the tattered copy of Angora and Entropy, yet is never mentioned again.
		Also neglected is any explanation of why Cross remains alive throughout the rest of the story. (Perhaps Mike A.'s own death best explains it.)