From: dwildstr@zeno.ucsd.edu   
      
   The Prophet Han, known to the wise as adsl537545GEZWAM@tiscali.nl, opened the   
   Book of Words, and read unto the people:   
   >http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/monalisa.shtml gibson comes up with   
   >'deacon blues'   
      
   Got your cause and effect muddled. William Gibson didn't inspire   
   Steely Dan -- it's the other way around. He's dropped odd little   
   references into a bunch of his books: the Deacon Blues in _Mona Lisa   
   Overdrive_ and _Count Zero_, the Gentleman Loser in _Neuromancer_ and   
   _Johnny Mnemonic_, the Western World and Klaus & the Rooster in   
   _Idoru_, the phrase 'Where did you get those shoes?' in _Virtual   
   Light_, etc.   
      
   --   
        D. Jacob (Jake) Wildstrom, Math monkey and freelance thinker   
      
   "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."   
     -Alfred Renyi   
      
   The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily endorsed by the   
   University of California or math department thereof.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)