Rite of Spring (1987)
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Andrew M. Greeley's 1987 novel, one of his Ryan family books, is narrated by Brendan Ryan, a quiet, recently divorced Chicago attorney with a gift for seeing things, who falls for a woman named Ciara Kelly and then cannot prove she exists. Alone in his office, he games the futures markets on paper for amusement. (Open Library)
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- Casio (unidentified model)
- After working out on his IBM PC XT how he could have cleared a quarter of a million dollars dishonestly on option calls, a game he has never had the nerve to play for real, Brendan switches the computer off and looks at his Casio: 5:45, late enough that Dufficy's Irish Store is closed and the walk home is safe from another sight of Ciara Kelly. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: I turned off my PC XT and looked at my Casio watch. Five forty-five. It was safe to walk across the Loop and down Michigan Avenue to my apartment. (Andrew M. Greeley, Rite of Spring, scan cataloged as Warner Books, 1987, p. 199; the narrator names himself on p. 4; Internet Archive scan OCR)