Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)

by William Gibson

imp of the perverse,

Neal Stephenson used this phrase in Cryptonomicon in 1999, I think. William Gibson uses the phrase in 2003.

mouthbreather)

mouth-breathing,

a shallow but mercifully uninhabited sleep, though with a certain sense of sound and fury walled off behind the neurological dryer lint of the melatonin.