V-2nd - Chapter 8 Space/Time scene climax

[Michael Bailey]

Back then you could smoke in all kinds of places.  Job interviewers
offered you a cigarette!  Nobody usually even got heavy if you ignored
the no smoking sign in an elevator.  Or so I've heard.  Even though
the verbiage was much tougher: anyone lighting up (by implication,
ANYWHERE AT ALL) when an elevator was in motion would be subject to
some section and dotted subsection of some statute or something!
Nowadays, I notice, the verbiage does restrict the scope of the
prohibition to the interior of the elevator car (and they specify
"igniting any substance")...

William Gibson in his new book noted that the finagling with cell
phones these days has replaced a lot of the gestures and close-order
hand-eye-expression drills that cigarette smoking used to
involve...probably healthier (maybe)

...she sends him to Anthroresearch Associates and it crosses his mind
that she says it faster than he probably could (it doesn't cross his
mind to practice it in front of her: too possibly embarrassing?)

Oley Bergomask - isn't a Bergomask some kind of dance in Shakespeare?  Yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergomask
Bergamask, or bergomask or bergamasca (from the town of Bergamo in
Northern Italy), is a clumsy rustic dance (cf. Shakespeare, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 360) copied from the natives of Bergamo,
reputed to be very awkward in their manners.

Awkward in their manners?  Like a certain profane individual.

so is this a pointer to some Midsummer Night's Dream action?  Some
kind of wacky mate-changing involving internecine squabbles among the
faerie nobility and so forth?

Would Roony and Mafia be like Oberon and Titania?

Puck Bodine?  Decky-dance/Bergomask: same kinda thingie?

Is Space/Time employment a place where Profane, after his ass falls
off, finds it on his head?
Is the association of Rachel with work the major turnoff?

Questions, questions, questions.  And is Rachel blowing a kiss, or yawning?






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