NP - William Gibson

[Robert Mahnke]

I would like to know what he thinks of Pynchon's work.  I would ask
him on Twitter, where he is quite active as @greatdismal, but it would
be great to have an answer longer than 140 characters.  I highly
recommend following him on Twitter -- I have read things he
recommended there that I might not have discovered otherwise.

On 4/15/12, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> nation-state demise sounds very possible to me...
>
> I would ask him, perversely, about surviving poor in Canada by buying
> second-hand stuff---clothes, noticeably--and reselling,which
> I have read he did. And about that time in Canada for him (where I went to
> school for awhile).
>
> he knows cloth---clothing.......his books also say.
>
>
>
> From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:46 AM
> Subject: NP - William Gibson
>
> Hello all.
>  It seems that William Gibson will be in my area so I plan to see him. I
> know he's been mentioned on the list so I thought i might get some ideas
> from you all.
>
> So in the documentary "No Maps For These Territories" he ventured the
> following: It [the internet] will bring about the extinction of the
> nation-state as we know it..." Quite a claim. What do you folks think?
>
> Second, if you could ask him a question, what would it be?
>
> curious mc
>
> ps  Also visiting the area are Chuck Palahniuk and Hans Magnus Enzenberger
> among others but I can't make their talks.