NELL: I am, of course, aware that I have favorable prospects in the Atlantan phyle, but I do not think that it would be fitting for me to take the straight and narrow path. I am going to China now to seek my fortune.
CONSTABLE MOORE: Well, look out for the Fists. They are coming now.
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An Indonesian corrections officer holds a rattan cane.
Hackworth's caning went by quickly & efficiently. The pain sent him straight into shock. Chang pulled his flaccid body off the rack & bore him over to a hard cot, where he lay semiconscious for a few minutes. They brought him tea—a nice Keemun with distinct lavender notes.
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Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team marching in Seattle's Seafair Parade, wearing highly ornamented Cantonese opera costumes and marching in military formation.
In all, he counted two hundred and fifty-six battalions. Sixty-five thousand girls ran past him, hell-bent on Shanghai.
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The only copy of the primer that worked was the one where the actress voluntarily became her mother.
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Also. They WISH it was that good.
The pages she'd turned were under her left thumb, trying to work their way loose, as if they were alive. She had to press down to keep them there. Finally they bulged up in the middle & slid out from underneath her thumb & flop-flop-flop, returned to the beginning of the story.
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Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age (1995)
Favorite book #2. A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an undersung post-cyberpunk AI era classic.
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#booksky #NealStephenson #diamondage #post-cyberpunk #sf #favoritebooks
Major Napier rode up on a standard-issue cavalry chevaline & came in at noon on the dot, pulling off his officer's hat & exchanging a hilarious greeting w/the barkeep. Hackworth recognized him because he was a hero & Napier recognized Hackworth for reasons left provocatively unspecified.
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Finally a man in a black business suit emerges, preceded and pursued by bodyguards. He looks angrier than Zhang, thinking that he must be the victim of some unforgivable practical joke. This is a merchant among merchants: the 14th richest man in the world, the 3rd richest in China.
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It was almost difficult not to build things that were lighter than air. Aircraft pilots, cruising along 10 kilometers above sea level, had become accustomed to the sight of empty, discarded grocery bags zooming past their windshields.
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Hydrogen Explosion in Shandong, China (Source: https://www.hazardexonthenet.net)
The whole operation had been touchingly hapless, in an age when a hand-size battery could contain as much energy as all those cylinders of gas. It had a quaint 20th-century feel & made Nell oddly nostalgic for the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk.
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HACKWORTH: I didnt expect to see [his hat] again, even in such a battered condition.
LT CHANG: These boys dont have respect for a good hat.
[Chang stood just there. The 1st exchange had been simple, but now the East/West curtain fell between them like a rusty cleaver]
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#Bud
Fang stood up to find himself surrounded by a hundred little girls, all facing toward the little jade book, standing on tiptoes, mouths open. He turned & left the room; none of the girls noticed, which was just as well, as they might have seen a quiver in his lip & a tear in his eye.
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This article is about the twelfth reminder this week that I need to stop what I'm reading and revisit Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" once more.
#NealStephenson #DiamondAge
When Dr X came down ½ hour later, he was nonetheless delighted & surprised to see the respected Judge Fang staring out at the pond, its schools of fish flickering lambently. There was lengthy discourse between the 2 on which of them was more honored to be in the company of the other. >>
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Paging forward through the book, she came across a long-forgotten story of how, following her stepfather's disappearance, her wicked stepmother had taken the lock-box to a high cliff above the sea & flung it into the waves, destroying any evidence that Princess Nell was of royal blood.
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The fragmented USA of #SnowCrash or world of #DiamondAge are not good
Here lies Clover, tail & all
Her virtues far outweighed her flaws
She from the saddle took a fall
And perished 'neath her charger's paws.
We know not if her final ride
Hath led her into Heaven or Hell
Wherever she doth now abide
She's loyal yet to Princess Nell.
The Young Lady's Primer
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Ta hopefully Science fiction. But an A I bubble is inevitable. The tech is simply too primitive.
In my estimation we are gonna need room T superconductors and multi state optical circuits The latter grown via some sort of non organic nanotech.
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The rise of the #diamondage, excluding #mattercompiler 😥
MISS MATHESON: And the other two are?
NELL: Euphrosyne, or joy, and Thalia, or bloom. [she works out who is whom]
MM: Well, as you can see, none of them is wearing a nametag, and so we must satisfy ourselves with conjecture. But I fail to see any gaps in your reasoning.
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NELL: I should inform you that sometimes the book does rather nasty things to people who, as it supposes, are trying to steal it from me.
[Nell bit her lip, hoping she hadn't implied that the constable was a thief]
CONSTABLE MOORE: Young lady, I should be crestfallen if it didn't.
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A polka dotted purse with a Minnie Mouse keychain attached to the handle.
Princess Nell had heard tales of the Mouse Army & dismissed them as superstitions. But once, she'd been awakened by the sound of a mouse rooting thru her pack. She was startled to see that the mouse was not gnawing its way into food, but rather was going through some of her papers.
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Rock carvings of several holy men in a Parsi fire temple in Mumbai.
Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw opened a drawer & took out a roll of thick, glossy mediatronic paper bearing animated #Christmas scenes: Santa sliding down the chimney, the ballistic reindeer, the 3 Zoroastrian sovereigns dismounting from their dromedaries in front of the stable.
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Hmm … sounds kind of like #DiamondAge stuff
All signs and portents ;) seem to indicate it is time for me to revisit this one:
#nealstephenson #diamondage #steampunk #cyberpunk
Hackworth stepped into the Chinese Coastal Republic, an entirely different country that comprised virtually all of Shanghai. As if to emphasize this, young men loitered on corners in Western clothes, listening to loud music, hooting at women, and generally ignoring their filial duties.
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MAJOR NAPIER: In an era when everything can be surveilled, all we have left is politeness.
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Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn’t packed a parasol, but she was untroubled…She’d always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.
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