William Gibson - Pattern Recognition (2003)

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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

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We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

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Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

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Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

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Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

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She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

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