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Wellington Ma's business card was a rectangular slice of pink synthetic quartz, laser-engraved with his name, 'The Ma-Mariano Agency,' an address on Beverly Bou
by syncsynchalt 7y ago
Wellington Ma's business card was a rectangular slice of pink synthetic quartz, laser-engraved with his name, 'The Ma-Mariano Agency,' an address on Beverly Boulevard, and all kinds of numbers and e-mail addresses. It arrived by GlobEx in its own little gray suede envelope while Rydell was still in the hospital.
"Looks like you could cut yourself on it," Rydell said.
"You could, many no doubt have," said Karen Mendelsohn, "and if you put it in your wallet and sit down, it shatters."
"Then what's the point of it?"
"You're supposed to take very good care of it. You won't get another."
- hirundo 7y ago-- William Gibson, Virtual Light
- xen2xen1 7y agoThought that was familiar.
- TheTruth321 7y agoBravo
- foota 7y agoI get serious Snow Crash vibes from this.
- e1ghtSpace 7y agoThats where I thought it was from lol
- s_kilk 7y agoIt's from Gibsons "Virtual Light", a vastly better book than Snow Crash. Highly recommended!
- ChickeNES 7y ago> a vastly better book than Snow Crash. I've yet to read anything by Gibson that approaches anything by Stephenson
- mr_overalls 7y agoOther than the ending of every book Gibson has ever written, compared to the ending of any of Stephenson's works.
- teachrdan 7y agoGibson's Law: If a shatterable business card is introduced in Act I, it will be sat upon and shattered by Act III.