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>>  ps-MantaRay, elucidate on the more sensational TRP-SY-Neuromancer
connections.
 
Well, for the hardcore Cyberpunk-SonicYouth connection, check out Larry
McCaffery's Storming the Reality Studio. But there is a song on the fabulous
Daydream Nation called "The Sprawl" in which Kim Gordon croons "Come on down
to the store/You can buy some more more more more" and all us cyberpunks know
what they're buying: bodies! 

The Sprawl (in Neuromancer and SY), in the paper in my head, has some literal
resonances with San Narciso, where buildings are numbered unnaturally, and
identities are fragmented. Peirce put up a stature of Oedipaa with a fan
blowing her skirt up, a figurative transgression of her bodyspace;
Neuromancer's bodyspaces don't need explaining (for those PynHeadz who have
not read Neuromancer, do so now). In "Hey Toni," Thurston asks his buddy if
he can still 'jack in' to the city and 'know what to do:" language lifted
directly from Gibson. 

That's a taste. I'm actually working on this to send to that Rome conference.
It's a large paper I wrote a few years ago, starring Lot 49, Neuromancer,
White Noise, blah blah

MantaRay