Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

CosaNostra Pizza #3569 is on Vista Road just down from Kings Park Mall.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

Hiro has cappuccino skin and spiky, truncated dreadlocks. His hair does not cover as much of his head as it used to, but he is a young man, by no means bald or balding, and the slight retreat of his hairline only makes more of his high cheekbones. He is wearing shiny goggles that wrap halfway around his head; the bows of the goggles have little earphones that are plugged into his outer ears.

The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.