How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
For a fee, you can drive into a Snooze 'n' Cruise franchise and umbilical your bago. The magic words are "We Have Pull-Thrus," which means you can enter the franchise, hook up, sleep, unhook, and drive out without ever having to shift your land zeppelin into reverse. (39.5)
This, friends, is truly the American way: total mobility, the freedom to range throughout this entire glorious country… and never having to put your trailer into reverse. Can we get fries with that?
Quote #8
Hiro is bulletproof up to his neck, but that just means the New South Africans will be going for a head shot. And they pride themselves on marksmanship. It is a fetish with them. (40.11)
The racist whites of America now mostly belong to franchises like New South Africa, where they can glory in their guns and their whiteness. What better place to set up a cult of the marksmanship fetish?
Quote #9
But there are worse places to live. There are much worse places right here in this U-Stor-It […] slum housing, 5-by-10s and 10-by-10s when Yanoama tribespersons cook beans and parboil fistfuls of coca leaves over heaps of burning lottery tickets. (3.2)
We must be living pretty sweet lives in real-time America if we're using storage units for their intended purposes rather than for housing. Lucky us.