Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
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People smoke, and drink as though it were good for you, and seem to still be in some sort of honeymoon phase with cocaine.
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She’s here on Blue Ant’s ticket. Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores.
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Stonestreet producing a pack of cigarettes called Silk Cut, which Cayce, never a smoker, thinks of as somehow being the British equivalent of the Japanese Mild Seven. Two default brands of creatives.
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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
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I wore all the Tommy in college
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Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.
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New interest as a newly self-diagnosed Aphantasia Aphant.
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She has no internalized surface map of this city, only of the underground and of assorted personal footpaths spreading out from its stations.
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We have no future because our present is too volatile.”
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“We have only risk management.
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They don’t buy the product: They recycle the information. They use it to try to impress the next person they meet.”
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<3
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apophenia.
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Tokyo doesn’t so much sleep as pause to allow crucial repairs to its infrastructure.
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Filson outfitter bags
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LOok it up
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Flecktarn.
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Camo
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He said they’d been done in by the Beatles, so the food riots hadn’t had to happen. The Beatles and losing their own Vietnam.
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The Russians
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