Part 1, Fledgling: Chapter 13, To-Do List of the Fashionably Doomed and Chapter 14, Two Losts Do Not Make a Found Summary

Tommy retrieves his belongings from Chinatown and walks to the Transamerica building. Before going in, he stops to watch the well-dressed workers. The Emperor sees Tommy and stops to talk to him, calling the pedestrians a tragedy, uncreative thinkers being left behind in a new world of technology. The Emperor also comforts Tommy by telling him that Madame Natasha is a terrible fortuneteller.

Tommy goes into the Transamerica building, where he has to wait for an hour before anyone will talk to him. When the woman who is supposed to give him Jody's check ignores him, Tommy takes out his typewriter and begins typing a note as if he...