Neal Stephenson said it best
Remember, in
Snow Crash, when Hiro first encounters Raven?
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
"Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
I think
Karen Marcelo just might have a parallel effect on a few of us geek chicks.
Posted by Liz at July 9, 2003 01:39 AM