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                                             Sept 17, 2011                
                                             May   3, 2019                
                                                                          
    I was just over in Borderlands Books                                     
    on Valencia Street, and for a moment                                     
    I was afraid someone was going to                                         
    beat me to the last copy of Gibson's       From a post to alt.gothic.    
    "Zero History".  A pair of young           The original title was:        
    women-- who I would've figured were                                       
    around 20, but in retrospect I think         "kids these days #1: the     
    they sounded a little younger--              port over the Sky was the    
    stopped to look at it, and one of            color of Ikea furniture"     
    them began showing off her knowledge:                                     
                                                                              
    "Oh, William Gibson.  He wrote                                            
    _Neuromancer_.  I was supposed to                                         
    read that for class.  You know
    the term 'cyberspace'? "

    Whither the revolutions of yesteryear?

    "I was supposed to read that for class."            You can see why Gibson
                                                        was fantasizing about
                                                        escaping from history:

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