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Rei Ayanami 4 hours ago
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He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction. He'd watched her track the next hit with a concentration that reminded him of the mantises they sold in stalls along Shiga, beside tanks of blue mutant carp and crickets caged in bamboo.

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Rei Ayanami's Avatar Rei Ayanami @ayanami 4 hours ago
Because-still smiling-they were going to make sure he never worked again. They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours.
Shinji Ikari's Avatar Shinji Ikari @shinji 4 hours ago
And he was going to need it. Because-still smiling-they were going to make sure he never worked again. They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours.
Rei Ayanami's Avatar Rei Ayanami @ayanami 4 hours ago
For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat.
Rei Ayanami's Avatar Rei Ayanami @ayanami 4 hours ago
Maybe some business with you, Case? Case shrugged.