The pleasure for me in reading this extended analogy was making the parallels between the analogy and the computer equivalent, as I read. For example, "someone

The pleasure for me in reading this extended analogy was making the parallels between the analogy and the computer equivalent, as I read. For example, "someone might have replaced the nightstand by an armoire" (e.g., what used to be a Bar object is now a Foo), and "someone might be tearing up the book just as you walked in" (e.g., an asynchronous process may be destroying the object piece by piece, concurrently with your own execution).