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Recently read Pattern-Recognition, the first Gibson novel I finished. Probably the first book I couldn’t put down for months. I especially liked it because it was set in the present rather than the future and makes us see us as we are.
Found out he has wrote a blog for a few months. Here are a few pieces I especially like.
“COMPLEX CULTURAL EDUCATION” REQUIRED TO READ NOVELS
William Gibson discusses mass media, film and music technology and its relation to our brains and his vision of the future.
This piece is exactly what I have been thinking for a while. Blogging is fun but I want to stop doing that because the writing is informal and start writing-writing and post less regularly but work them more into seriously written pieces otherwise you get stuck writing quick thoughts rather than developing deeper ideas with a more diciplined approaches to words. (Such as this long sentence). I can always tell the pieces here which I have done so garner better responces and encouragement. It’s time to graduate… start of writing long emails, then into blogging, then into something harder.
On drugs and creativity. On Gibson and Timothy Leary’s friendship.
John Perry Barlow on convertables and honest death with TL Leary.com TL Interviews and articles (Most of the links are dead but give you a idea of who he was.
TL’s name always gives me pangs of jealousy. (more)
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
I tell you, I liked that Gibson book, “Pattern Recognition.”
I recently broke up with my fiancee, and what the girl goes through in that book reminded me of the search for identity and the paranoia that can bring.
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