Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.