From: kcalder@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   In message , Sourcerer   
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   >>I agree, and this was in fact the conclusion of my high school paper.  I   
   >>think that Gibson is too into his future for it to be truly dystopic, I   
   >>think he relishes the details too much to preaching to the reader about   
   >>how "bad" this future is.  The reader might bring a value judgement to   
   >>the text, but I think that Gibson and N leave it very much open.  In   
   >>fact I think Gibson is almost leaning more toward it being a sort of   
   >>perverse utopia in terms of how much he seems to enjoy the descriptions   
   >>of decay i.e. "cracked plastic", "tarnished chrome" e.t.c. e.t.c.   You   
   >>know?  Everything is degraded and degrading and broken and chipped and   
   >>fake and plastic chipped and cracked and tarnished and stained and faded   
   >>and fading and he fucking loves it! :)   
      
   >I think he loves the words and phrases, if not their referents.   
      
   You don't think he is into all the tarnished stuff?  Don't you think   
   that G's first trilogy at least involves some kind of glamorisation of   
   this kind of superficial decay?  Don't you think he relishes the   
   flickery neon perversity of it all?   
      
   I don't mean G personally of course, I have no idea what he is into now,   
   rather I mean the authorial presence in text.  Or somesuch construction.   
      
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   Kevin Calder   
      
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