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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:42:39 -0500
- From: Michael Paul Greelish <mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: CP spirituality
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan20.193947.9679@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- I think the question of what cyberpunk spirituality is could be
- answerered a lot better by reading some good CP fiction than by throwing
- the question open to answer by a bunch of Internet weenies (like me ;-)
-
- IMHO, there's a major spiritual underside to a lot of CP-- the
- background ethic of Gibson, Sterling, Jeter et al.'s characters seems to
- me quite spiritual. Then there's the voudoun of the black folks in
- Gibson's Sprawl-series novels (Count Zero and MLO.) Tom Maddox goes into
- the unknowable in a groovy way in some of his stories... I think you get
- the idea.
-
- Read, man. Words on pages still have merit. 'Course, I'm biased, being
- one of those bookish English-major types...
-
- ______________________________________________________
- Mike Greelish mg20@andrew.cmu.edu
- Carnegie Mellon University, Professional Writing major
- Quote: "In the land of the one-eyed, the blind man is king."
-