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Название книги: Spew
Автор(ы): Neal Stephenson
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Spew-152487.html

Yeah, I know it's boring of me to send you plain old Text like this, and I hope you don't just blow this message off without reading it.But what can I say, I was an English major. On video, I come off like a stunned bystander. I'm just a Text kind of guy. I'm gambling that you'll think it's quaint or something. So let me just tell you the whole sorry tale, starting from the point where I think I went wrong.I'd be blowing brown smoke if I said I wasn't nervous when they shoved in the needles, taped on the trodes, thrust my head into the Big Cold Magnet, and opened a channel direct from the Spew to my immortal soul. Of course they didn't call it the Spew, and neither did I - I wanted the job, after all. But how couldI not call it that, with its Feeds multifarious as the glistening strands cascading sunnily from the supple scalps of the models in the dandruff shampoo ads.I mention that image because it was the first thing I saw when they turned theSpew on, and I wasn't even ready. Not that anyone could ever get ready for t