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The great samurai Miyamoto Musashi says it is necessary to lose the self and become one with Mu, the emptiness at the heart of existence to which everything returns. Thus the warrior finds life in death.
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts . . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. .”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“As Edgar Allan Poe said, in a good plot, “no part can be displaced without ruin to the whole.”3”
― The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
― The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“Case lowered the gun. “This is the matrix. You’re Wintermute.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“I remember all of the day’s misinformation very clearly, and I also remember this, and wish I did not: I remember that no one was surprised.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
“Disorder was its own point.”
― The White Album: Essays
― The White Album: Essays
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