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Snow Crash is in many places meant to be intentionally silly and absurdist as an extrapolated, exaggerated satire on contemporary American lifestyle at the time
by walrus01 5y ago
Snow Crash is in many places meant to be intentionally silly and absurdist as an extrapolated, exaggerated satire on contemporary American lifestyle at the time it was written, such as in the users manual for the "Reason" railgun
- jhbadger 5y agoAnd it is pretty obviously referring to 1992 current events. To modern readers L. Bob Rife is just a funny villain, but he was obviously a parody of 1992 outsider US Presidential Candidate H. Ross Perot.
- nonesuchluck 5y agoOh. To this modern reader, L. Bob Rife was just an obvious parody of L. Ron Hubbard. But he wasn't a Texan, so I suppose I see your angle. Interesting bit of flavor.