How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"He's a kind of compulsive Judas. Can't get off sexually unless he knows he's betraying the object of desire." (7.106)
Well that's disturbing. Riviera's a good old-fashioned sociopath who combines violence with sexual arousal. We see his violent desires manifest more when he has Molly hostage in Straylight later in the novel.
Quote #5
"Sure. I was crazy. Figured, I'd try to cut it. Hit the first strata and that's all she wrote. My joeboy smelled the skin frying and pulled the trodes off me. Mean s***, that ice."
"And your EEG was flat."
"Well, that's the stuff of legend, ain't it?" (9.31-33).
When iPads attack. As the boundaries between technology and humanity shrink, violence in the virtual world becomes an unfortunate side effect.