"East on La Brea, Alberto steered the Aztec-lacquered VW, Hollis beside him."
"Milgrim dreamed he was naked in Brown’s room, while Brown lay sleeping."
Chapter summaries (may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information):
Chapter 11. BOBBYLAND
Alberto reluctantly takes Hollis to visit the elusive Bobby Chombo at his nondescript studio in an industrial park off Romaine. Bobby is a "tech guy" and "mimetic literalist, without knowing it" with a "full-on Townsend-Moon hooter" who enables locative artists to get their work on the grid. Fortunately for Hollis, Bobby is also a fan of The Curfew.Despite his initial coldness, Bobby shows Hollis a new advertising gimmick for a Tokyo department store, a holographic squid with wide anime eyes named Archie. [509 characters]
Eeek ! Perhaps "mimetic literalist" is close to the use of the term Memetic Engineer, which William Gibson had been thinking about at the time of Pattern Recognition
See London 2600 pictures from the Pattern Recognition book signing and reading, Thursday 24th April 2003, Trades Union Congress conference centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London
- On accepting a London 2600 t-shirt and reading the A-Z list on the back:
WG: "Memetic Engineer ? So soon ?"
London 2600: "For several years now ..."
Chapter 12. THE SOURCE
Milgrim dreams of Brown sleeping childlike, surrounded by his pistol, flashlight and a large folding knife. Nearby in this vision is a crumpled paper bag full of a weeks worth of "unmistakable oblongs of pharmaceutical bubble-packs." [233 characters]