I’d Meant To Blog This…

…because it ties so neatly to the ‘fox and the hedgehog’ metaphor from my January 4th article. This quote is from William Gibson’s blog.:

“I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.”

— William James

6 thoughts on “I’d Meant To Blog This…”

  1. William Gibson swore off blogging some time ago, saying it was taking too much time away from his writing.

    For Case, who’d lived the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he’d frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The flesh was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh. [Neuromancer]

    Welcome back from prison, Bill.

  2. SAO, if you want to discuss torture and Gonzales, go to Belmont Club, Wretchard’s got the 411 there!

    Thanx Joe, Glen– I love Bill Gibson– you could convince me of anything with a _Neuromancer_ quote. 🙂

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