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> "I think I would like Seattle," Emily says," except for the
> rain. That innocence, and the missionary spirit. Like
> writers, but not cynical."
But...
Redmond != Seattle, just as
San Francisco != Silicon Valley.
I've read a lot of books that get the Bay Area right,
but which confuse Seattle (which might even be an
interesting and diverse place to live) with the East
Side (Redmond, &c), which ain't.
Also... it's not the rain that makes Puget Sound
(Seattle, East Side, &c) so depressing... it's the
14 months of dark grey sky per year.
... on a related note, who's reading Cryptonomicon?
I'm having a blast reading it (I'm about 2/3 done).
There is so much to love about the book, including the
Pychonesque/D.F.Wallacesque absurd hyperbolic
descriptions where you start off having NO idea
what the hell Stephenson is talking about; or, where
it all looks okay for a while and then you catch on
slowly that you're being snowed. E.g.:
"Epiphyte Corp.'s business plan is about an inch thick,
neither fat nor skinny as these things go. The interior
pages are slickly and groovily desktop-published out
of Avi's laptop. The covers are rugged hand-laid paper
of rice chaff, bamboo tailings, free-range hemp, and
crystalline glacial meltwater made by wizened artisans
operating out of a mist-shrouded temple hewn from
living volcanic rock on some island known only to
aerobically gifted, Spandex-sheathed Left Coast
travel bores. An impressionistic map of the South China
Sea has been dashed across these covers by
molecularly reconstructed Ming Dynasty calligraphers
using brushes of combed unicorn mane dipped into ink
made of grinding down charcoal slabs fashioned by
blind stylite monks from hand-charred fragments of
the True Cross."
- Joe
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