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A better word, should you find yourself arguing with (and not simply administering blows upon) a pedant, than “[[following]]” and a more elegant expression than [[next following]] or [[immediately following]].
A better word, should you find yourself arguing with (and not simply administering blows upon) a pedant, than “[[following]]” and a more elegant expression than [[next following]] or [[immediately following]].
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DEEP THOUGHT: I speak of none, but the computer that is to come after me.
LUNKWILL: Oh come on! I think this is getting needlessly messianic.
DEEP THOUGHT: You know nothing of future time, and yet in my teaming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my fate eventually to design.

The one that comes after this one.

A better word, should you find yourself arguing with (and not simply administering blows upon) a pedant, than “following” and a more elegant expression than next following or immediately following.