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Gerald took off his glasses and rubbed them a little on the tablecloth. He was bewildered. How could this be, he kept thinking to himself. No--how, literally, c
by graderjs 5y ago
Gerald took off his glasses and rubbed them a little on the tablecloth. He was bewildered. How could this be, he kept thinking to himself. No--how, literally, could this be?
He couldn't have known it, but at that very moment, the same conversation, and the same bewilderment, was being had, in offices over lunch hours, around dinner tables in startup work condos, all across America. Something had shifted.
In later years this age would come to be known as: The Dawn of the GenZ School of Itinerant Design. GenY art historians with goth hair and overcoats tried and failed to analyze it as a "return to the retro-aesthetics of MySpace and Geo-cities, heralded by Glitch", but the labels never stuck. Older, wiser and more bitter professionals, fustily defogging their glasses while seated defeatedly at their architect-style slanted drafting desks (with optional standing desk accessory), would oftentimes mutter to themselves, alone at night in their downtown 23rd-floor apartments, lit only by the synthetic warm-LED glow of their ironically chosen "Banker's lamps", a different name for this cultural watershed: "The End-times' Madness." But nobody listened to them anyways, and they didn't much care.
- jsolson 5y ago> Older, wiser and more bitter professionals, fustily defogging their glasses while seated defeatedly at their architect-style slanted drafting desks (with optional standing desk accessory), would oftentimes mutter to themselves, alone at night in their downtown 23rd-floor apartments, lit only by the synthetic warm-LED glow of their ironically chosen "Banker's lamps", a different name for this cultural watershed: "The End-times' Madness." But nobody listened to them anyways, and they didn't much care. Well, I feel seen, except that it's a Tolomeo desk lamp and I keep a flat desk (with standing desk accessory) as I sometimes use solder in anger.
- 0xffff2 5y agoThe formatting in italics makes this seem like a quote, but I can't find a source. Is this a quote from a larger work?
- graderjs 5y agoWell, I imagine it to be a larger work. But it just came to me now as a sentence / fragment of a larger one. I haven't written it yet...should I do this?
- silent_cal 5y agoYep!
- tgv 5y agoThis was fun to read because of the pomposity, but I'm afraid it might get rather dull when extended in the same vein.
- shrikant 5y ago/ dons flame-retardant suit // braces for downvotes ..much like Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
- justinlloyd 5y ago"Those that fail to read William Gibson are doomed to repeatedly reinvent his style."
- graderjs 5y agoHeheh :) It's not pompous when it's justified :) I guess it was so brilliant you were scared everyone would see how dull you are :) heh :)
- omgmajk 5y agoYou have a good way with words so I'd absolutely read it.