Unfortunately, the website seems to have missed the point, even though this quote is right there on the page:
"She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. "
Everything they show would have been glaringly comment-inducing when worn by a woman before probably the mid-sixties... Certainly before the mid-fifties.
-Kle. #williamgibson
I also saw Marly Krushkova as a strong feminine Gibson character. When I read Pattern Recognition after Count Zero I saw echoes of her in Cayce. And her anti-style is actual style. Like Kat says in her article, Cayce embodies the quality of cut, context of style, and the semiotics of fashion which a lot of people who love clothes are more interested in than branding or elitism- that is what true style is.
In a strange way it is that mentality, that awareness of fashions semiotics, that creates an elitism in style. It is what makes certain designs and brands more desirable, and therefore more marketable.
I suppose Cayce's ability to sense this is what makes her a sought after coolhunter. #williamgibson
William Gibson's prose is just beautiful. Not in the flowery, lyrical way that so many writers strive for and end up sounding like Stephanie Meyer. The bandwidth and information density are so high. A lesser writer would take twice as many pages to get the same information across. I liked the original SF well enough, but this near future stuff he's been writing lately shows that SF can be literature. #williamgibson
@PostMarque: I'm not a conspiracy buff, but I got the feeling in Spook Country that Gibson was circling the edges of the now. Gibson said himself that he wished to write about happenings 15 minutes into the future. I think he blew it, and instead wrote only about 5 minutes out. #williamgibson
@lazyeight: 15 minutes into my future may include a trip to the water closet to release my bowels... prolly not a chart topping best seller. #williamgibson
Cayce is an appealing character (to men, anyway; I have a feeling that to women she may seem a little too much like the super-thin, super-sophisticated girl a couple of years ahead in high school and college; nice Jane Birkin reference there, Gibson), but "rejection" is a funny way to put it: after all, "Pilates" is a brand name, with all sorts of very expensive branding (as a friend of mine who is an instructor mentions from time to time). Moreover, a pair of Levi's with "Levi Strauss & Co." ground off the buttons remains a pair of Levi's, maybe even if one unpicks the rear pocket stitching. Buzz Rickson is a brand, too, with logos. At a little remove from the novel, Cayce seems more like a hipster and less like a victim of an overbranded society -- "I'm allergic to brands" sounds like the sort of thing that one would hear pretty regularly in Williamsburg and Portland, etc. #williamgibson
@Rasselas: Also, if her name is an allusion to the psychic Edgar Cayce, as many people seem to think (rather than to the hacker in Neuromancer), I think it'd be pronounced "Casey." #williamgibson
@Rasselas: She tells Voytek that she was named for Edgar Cayce, but that her name is pronounced "Case." There's no "seem to think" about it. #williamgibson
@sjct: im a guy. and i also identify with the allergy reaction she has. tommy hilifgher and walmart draw the same reaction from me. i broke out in hives once at both stores. #williamgibson
obscure reference count on this shirt approaching critical levels. let me be the first to admit that i only got two of them off the bat being forced to look up whatever a 'hayes manual' was afterward. #starwars
@tetracycloide: FYI: Haynes manuals are basically real-life Starfleet Technical manuals for cars. For amateur mechanics like myself, who don't like getting screwed by hack greasemonkeys mucking about under my hood, they're livesavers. Everything you could possibly want to know about your year, make and model vehicle is in these things.
Since I am a geek, I actually also read mine for fun. #starwars
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"She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. "
Everything they show would have been glaringly comment-inducing when worn by a woman before probably the mid-sixties... Certainly before the mid-fifties.
-Kle. #williamgibson
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I love the idea that, with Gibson's work, we're moving back from a not-so-distant future to a not-quite-there-yet present.
Give it another two books and he'll be predicting tomorrow. #williamgibson
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In a strange way it is that mentality, that awareness of fashions semiotics, that creates an elitism in style. It is what makes certain designs and brands more desirable, and therefore more marketable.
I suppose Cayce's ability to sense this is what makes her a sought after coolhunter. #williamgibson
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i have purchased at least 8 copies. 1 permanant copy, several loaner copies and several gift copies.
it is my answer to, "whats your favorite book?" #williamgibson
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Front of T-shirt -- A Haynes Raptor manual cover.
Back -- A color picture of a Raptor, with Aaron Douglas in overalls doing a teardown, and two guys watching him, taking notes and pics.
I would prolly pay 50 cubits for that shit, Reece. Do-eet! #starwars
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Since I am a geek, I actually also read mine for fun. #starwars
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