{"product_id":"babbages-disease","title":"Babbage's Disease","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdwin Birch coughs up an (slightly fictionalized) autobiographical novel on Charles Babbage--inventor of the Analytical Engine, father of the Computer Age--\u0026amp; his diminutive friend, Jiffy:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hello Jiffy,\" Babbage murmured, utterly bewildered and transfixed by the strange entity on his lap. \"What were you doing in my throat?\" he managed at last. It was a reasonable question, and it received a reasonable answer:\u003cbr\u003e\n\"I don't know. What's a throat?\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"It's what you were in just now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Oh. I see. I was sitting in it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Ah. Why?\"\u003cbr\u003e\nJiffy scrunched up his eyes and thought for a bit. \"I don't know\" he said at last, with a bright little smile. \"What's your name, mister?\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Babbage,\" said Babbage. \"Charles Babbage.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"That's a stupid name,\" said Jiffy. \"I like you. You're a funny colour. Where are we? What's an analytical engine?\" \u003cbr\u003e\n\"What did you say?\" Babbage hissed.\u003cbr\u003e\n\"I don't know. What's an analytical engine?\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"How... how did you...?\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\"I don't know. Is it like a spoon? Or a forest, perhaps?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44379631190177,"sku":"9781300728610","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/18k5kzgr-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1716873488","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/babbages-disease","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}