It seemed impossible that anyone could ever do that. Build that, on an island in Tokyo Bay. But the #idoru said that's where they want to live. So they were going to do it.

And if they do, Chia thought, hearing the hiss of the Espressomatic, I’ll go there.
{THE END}

#Idoru, William Gibson:
EPILOGUE (Fables of the Reconstruction)
Hak Nam rose before Chia. The #WalledCity is growing. Being grown. A thing of random human accretion, monstrous & superb, it is being reconstituted here, retranslated from its later incarnation as a realm of consensual fantasy.
Now Chia checks into the City, hears the gossip in a favorite barbershop in Sai Shing Road. The #Etruscan is there, sometimes, with #Klaus & the #Rooster & the other ghosts he hangs with & they tolerate her.

LANEY: You haven’t told me what I’m looking for.
BOSS: Anything of interest to Slitscan’s #audience. Which is a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. The size of a baby hippo , color of a potato, lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide near Topeka. It’s covered w/eyes stung by constant sweating. No mouth, no genitals. Expresses rage only by changing channels…or voting in presidential elections.
#Idoru

Laney seemed to cross a line. In the very structure of her face, in geometries of underlying bone, lay coded histories of dynastic flight, privation, terrible migrations. He saw stone tombs in steep alpine meadows, their lintels traced with snow.
A line of shaggy pack ponies followed a trail above a canyon. The curves of the river below were strokes of distant silver.
Laney shivered. In his mouth a taste of rotten metal.
The eyes of the #idoru, envoy of some imaginary country, met his.

YAMAZAKI: I understand initial attempts to ID nodal points did not meet w/success.
LANEY: I can’t pull a personal fix out of something textured like corporate data.
Y [quietly]: Come, something extraordinary. She is here. She dines with Rez. Rei Toei. The #idoru.
Laney saw people seated at a low table. 2 men & 1 woman. The woman must be Rei Toei. If he’d anticipated her at all, it had been as some industrial-strength synthesis of Japan’s last three dozen top female media faces.

One other adder to brief thoughts on The Giant Dark, I was in a way reminded of Gibson's Idoru, the fans obsession with a singer, the organisation and determination to find out about the singer's new relationship. The book was recommended by Daisy Johnson and Julia Armfield, both of whom I have read and enjoyed and recommended in the last year or two. #WilliamGibson #JuliaArmfield #DaisyJohnson #idoru #reading #bookstodon #books

Gorillaz presents… Skinny Ape (Immersive Live Performance in Times Square)
#gorillaz #TimesSquare #AugmentedReality #live #idoru
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iFaKhtlBU7A

Now I'm wondering if Chia Pet Mckenzie has been born yet. #Gibson #Idoru

22OCT05

#Lolitober day 5 - Animal Ears

Here we have Shiki, an aspiring pop idol from Shuriken School, getting on the fast track to suck-cess. 😉

Sketched by @RobotSpacePenguin, vectored and colored by me.

#loli #nude #topless #nipples #shurikenschool #shuriken_school #shiki #idoru #fellatio #blowjob

Virtual replicants: https://twitter.com/i/status/1286215741507883010 #cyberpunk #idoru