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Attaining more than his share of enemies when his whistle-blowing practices draw attention to several environmentally careless corporations, Sangamon Taylor finds himself dodging the bullets of an unhinged genetic engineer. Reprint. K. PW.
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- Sangamon Taylor: Add a description of this character.
- Boone
- Dolmacher
- Debbie
- Laughlin
- Bartholomew
- Jim Grandfather
- S.t.
- Basco
- Kelvin
- Alvin Pleshy
- Tanya
- Tom Akers
- Gallagher
- Gomez
- Smirnoff
- Wyman
- Rebecca
- Rory
- Anna
- Wes
- Dick
- Poyzen Boyzen
- Amy
- Hoa
- Cohen
- Everett
- Alan
- Charles
- Boner
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“One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.”
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“Sangamon's Principle, I said. The simpler the molecule, the better the drug. So the best drug is oxygen. Only two atoms. The second-best, nitrous oxide, a mere three atoms. The third-best, ethanol nine. Past that, you're talking lots of atoms.So? Atoms are like people. Get lots of them together, never know what they'll do”
Sangamon
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I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.
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Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe-to see you, and to give a fuck-you've already blown it.
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'Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it. Like the water and the air.
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The Chinese and the Thais, and for that matter the Greeks, print up menus automatically as soon as they get into the city limits; it's like a brainstem function. But the Vietnamese tend to be hard-luck cases to begin with, and they have a fastidious, catlike attitude about their chow. Maybe they got it from the French. To them, Chinese is gooey and greasy while Thai is monotonous-all that lemon grass and coconut milk. The Vietnamese cook for keeps.
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'Sangamon's Principle,' I said. 'The simpler the molecule, the better the drug. So the best drug is oxygen.
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Immigrants don't seem to care about happy very much. Healthy, wealthy and wise, yes, but happiness alone is something their children worry about, maybe.
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If people like me would just keep our mouths shut, people like him would never suspect why they got cancer. They'd chalk it up to God or probability. They wouldn't die with hearts full of venom.
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I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.
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Laughlin met me at the door, swooped his right hand around like a Stuka dive bomber and nailed me with a gym teacher's handshake and a game-show host's smile.
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My salary was cut in half and my ulcer vanished: I could eat onion rings at IHOP again, but I couldn't afford to.
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First Sentence edit
Roscommon came and laid waste to the garden an hour before dawn, about the time I usually get out of bed and he usually passes out on the shoulder of some freeway.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Neal Stephenson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0871131811
Page Count: 283
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0871131811
Page Count: 283
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 818'.54
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