william gibson

June 20, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Eunice?’
‘Joyous victory.’
‘Pardon me?’
‘The meaning of her name. She’s an intermittently hierarchical array, completely conterminous. Or that’s my best bet, currently.’”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/20/10609/

May 12, 2021 by achrilock

“Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can’t stop stealing.”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/12/9546/

May 5, 2021 by achrilock

“Fewer fucks to give, is what it is.”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/05/9358/

May 2, 2021 by achrilock

“‘This is a routine if infrequent aspect of my work,’ she said. ‘They should only react to me with terror, but need occasionally to be reminded.’”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/02/9292/

April 29, 2021 by achrilock

“Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely real, to me.”
— William Gibson, ‘Agency’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/29/9238/

April 26, 2021 by achrilock

“‘The whole world’s funny?’ She remembered Lowbeer saying that.
‘The klept,’ he said, misunderstanding her, ‘isn’t funny at all.’”
— William Gibson, ‘The Peripheral’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/26/9154/

April 17, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Terrorism,’ said the rental.
‘We prefer not to use that term,’ said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, ‘if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state.’”
— William Gibson, ‘The Peripheral’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/17/8947/

April 15, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Imperialism,’ said Ash. ‘We’re third-worlding alternate continua. Calling them stubs makes that a bit easier.’”
— William Gibson, ‘The Peripheral’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/15/8894/

April 6, 2021 by achrilock

“The fuck does that shit mean?”
— William Gibson, ‘The Peripheral’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/06/8616/

March 31, 2021 by achrilock

“—My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.”
— William Gibson, ‘Count Zero’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/31/8501/

March 25, 2021 by achrilock

“And first of all that it was no one thing. That it was multicausal, with no particular beginning and no end.”
— William Gibson, ‘The Peripheral’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/25/8392/

March 21, 2021 by achrilock

“‘There’s a saying in creole,’ Beauvoir said.
‘What’s that?’
‘Evil exists’”
— William Gibson, ‘Count Zero’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/21/8336/

January 10, 2021 by achrilock

“The Panther Moderns differ from other terrorists precisely in their degree of self-consciousness, in their awareness of the extent to which media divorce the act of terrorism from the original sociopolitical intent. . . .”
— William Gibson, ‘Neuromancer’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/10/6532/