BEg2 ch 31 references

[rich]

some here, froth being spittle from that lisp, no?

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rich

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 2:03 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  “He’s a greedy little shit,” Eric’s head now in a halo of Daffy Duck froth
> droplets, “eternity in a motel lounge in Houston Texas with a Andrew Lloyd
> Webber mix repeating forever on the stereo is too good for his sorry ass.”
>
>
> - Daffy Duck frothing - easy to visualize, hard to find an image of
>
> - Andrew Lloyd Webber - also dissed in _Vineland_
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> “Seems [Eric] has recently launched the Vomit Kurser, named in homage to
> the ill-regarded Comet Cursor of the nineties and developed in partnership
> with a bruja from one of his old neighborhoods. Via eye-catching but fake
> pop-up ads promising health, wealth, happiness &c, the Kurser will
> surreptitiously lay old-school curses on selected targets—click in once,
> your ass is grass. Somehow, as the Latina sorceress has explained to Eric,
> the Internet as it turns out exhibits a strange affinity for the dynamics
> of curses, especially when written in the more ancient languages predating
> HTML. Through the uncountable cross-motives of the cyberworld, the fates of
> unreflective click-happy users are altered for the worse—systems crash,
> data are lost, bank accounts are looted, all of which being
> computer-related you might expect, but then there are also the realworld
> inconveniences, such as zits, unfaithful spouses, intractable cases of
> Running Toilet, providing the more metaphysically inclined further evidence
> that the Internet is only a small part of a much vaster integrated
> continuum.”
>
>
>        -  I remember buying in Books-a-Million, in the late 90s, an issue
> of an apparently short-lived periodical devoted to applications of Chaos
> Magick on the Internet. People trying similar ideas in cockeyed
> half-seriousness. Seemed less implausible back then, maybe?
>
> But also, here extending the idea - propounded in other places by Maxine’s
> father, inter many alia - that the Internet isn’t all rainbows and
> unicorns.
>
> And warping the mundane notion of malware into
> fantastical/science-fictional shape.
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