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Embodying that impulse the creature sets off into the north wastes in the novel 's last sentence - - not wearily or reluctantly , he " springs " from the ship . Standard parallel programming requires a programmer to anticipate these simultaneous activities and make sure that once a certain activity begins to access memory , it " locks " out other activities so they wait until the transaction is completed .