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1 views"Tha's maj' muscle relax'nt," she managed, and Mona felt bad because she knew she'd done something stupid when she'd thought she was trying to help, but wiz always did that, and how come she couldn't stop doing it? Because you're wired, stupid, she heard Lanette say, but she hadn't wanted to remember that.So they all just stood there, looking down at the metal spider twitching and running itself down.All except Gentry, who was unscrewing the gray box from its frame over the stretcher, his black boots beside Angie's red fur."Listen," Molly said, "that's a copter.
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0 viewsSlick, or Slick Henry, is among the SINless, but 3Jane, Continuity, Bobby, all have lavished their attention on him.For 3Jane, he serves as the focus of a minor node of association: she equates his ongoing rite of construction, his cathartic response to chemo-penal trauma, with her own failed attempts to exorcise the barren dream of Tessier-Ashpool.In the corridors of 3Jane's memory, Angie has frequently come upon the chamber where a spider-armed manipulator stirs the refuse of Straylight's brief, clotted history -- an act of extended collage.And Bobby provides other memories, tapped from the artist as he accessed 3Jane's library of Babel: his slow, sad, childlike labor on the plain called Dog Solitude, erecting anew the forms of pain and memory.
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0 views..." "Tell me something." "What?" "What are these things you build? Afrika said you were this crazy white guy built robots out of junk.Said in the summer you take 'em out there on the rust and stage big fights --" "They aren't robots," he interrupted, swinging the flash to the low, scythe-tipped arms of the spider-legged Witch.
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0 viewsIt wasn't like the not caring of the stillness, the crystal overdrive, and it wasn't like crashing, just this past-it feeling, the way maybe a ghost feels.She stood beside Slick and Molly in the doorway and looked down.In the dim glare of big old bulbs she watched a metal spider thing jittering across the dirty concrete floor.It had big curved blades that snapped and whirled when it moved, but there was nobody in there moving, and the thing just went like a broken toy, back and forth in front of the twisted wreck of the little bridge she'd crossed with Angie and Cherry.
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1 viewsPorphyre led the way up the spidery, matte-black stairway.She followed without looking back.She had something now, a new determination.She'd decided to contact Hans Becker through his agent in Paris.
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0 viewsSlick, or Slick Henry, is among the SINless, but 3Jane, Continuity, Bobby, all have lavished their attention on him.For 3Jane, he serves as the focus of a minor node of association: she equates his ongoing rite of construction, his cathartic response to chemo-penal trauma, with her own failed attempts to exorcise the barren dream of Tessier-Ashpool.In the corridors of 3Jane's memory, Angie has frequently come upon the chamber where a spider-armed manipulator stirs the refuse of Straylight's brief, clotted history -- an act of extended collage.And Bobby provides other memories, tapped from the artist as he accessed 3Jane's library of Babel: his slow, sad, childlike labor on the plain called Dog Solitude, erecting anew the forms of pain and memory.
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0 viewsSo she just left, and she wouldn't know if Gentry ever found his book or not, but that was how it was, so she climbed down the rope herself, which wasn't as easy as Molly and Slick had made it look, particularly if you felt like Mona did, because Mona felt close to blacking out and her arms and legs didn't seem to be working real good anyway, she had to sort of concentrate on making them move, and her nose and throat were swelling inside, so she didn't notice the black guy until she was all the way down.He was standing down there looking at the big spider thing, which wasn't moving at all.Looked up when the heel of her shoe grated across the steel platform.And something so sad about his face, when he saw her, but then it was gone and he was climbing the metal stairs, slow and easy, and as he got closer she began to wonder if he really was black.
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1 views"Tha's maj' muscle relax'nt," she managed, and Mona felt bad because she knew she'd done something stupid when she'd thought she was trying to help, but wiz always did that, and how come she couldn't stop doing it? Because you're wired, stupid, she heard Lanette say, but she hadn't wanted to remember that.So they all just stood there, looking down at the metal spider twitching and running itself down.All except Gentry, who was unscrewing the gray box from its frame over the stretcher, his black boots beside Angie's red fur."Listen," Molly said, "that's a copter.
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by Andreas1 viewsby Andreas
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By Ken Smith0 viewsBy Ken Smith
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0 views, the typeface regal and spidery."Gotcha," she whispered.Texas Radio Mona could see the sun through a couple of rips in the black plastic they kept taped over the window.She hated the squat too much to stay there when she was awake or straight, and now she was both.
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1 views"Tha's maj' muscle relax'nt," she managed, and Mona felt bad because she knew she'd done something stupid when she'd thought she was trying to help, but wiz always did that, and how come she couldn't stop doing it? Because you're wired, stupid, she heard Lanette say, but she hadn't wanted to remember that.So they all just stood there, looking down at the metal spider twitching and running itself down.All except Gentry, who was unscrewing the gray box from its frame over the stretcher, his black boots beside Angie's red fur."Listen," Molly said, "that's a copter.
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