Lisa got me Snow Crash in a buy-2-get-one-free frenzy at Barnes & Noble and so I gave it the One Page Test (tm), part of which contained:
SACRIFICE ZONE
WARNING. The National Parks Service has declared this area to be a National Sacrifice Zone. The Sacrifice Zone Program was developed to manage parcels of land whose clean-up cost exceeds their total future economic value.
This after seeing photos of the worlds most polluted river and Darryl Hannah sullied by big oil in Equador. What's a good word to describe when the line plot of fiction starts crossing the line plot of reality?
Two things Eileen taught me on our first date - there's no Q in Ecuador and no U in Colombia. (Well, the third is no farting in an elevator)
Posted by: David at June 6, 2007 08:53 PMhero pro-tagonist ftw. one of the most warped / best books I have ever read, It is worth the time, I promise.
Posted by: Cyanbane at June 7, 2007 01:22 AM