Quotation of July

Laney looked at the tweaked Hillman on his screen. "You havn't told me what I'm looking for."

"Anything that might be of interest to Slitscan. Which is to say, Laney, anything that might be of interest to Slitscan's audience. Which is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anoited. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and sweats constantly. The sweat runs info those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidental elections."

Another excerpt from William Gibson's Idoru where the TV producer Kathy Torrence derscibes her show's audience with outmost respect. I guess the future is not very different from today, after all... For more information on William Gibson and his great novels, see the quotation page for June.

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