# Quote — William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties

> Chevette fell asleep as Tessa was telling her about a place called the Walled City, how there'd actually been this place, by Hong Kong, but it had been torn down before Hong Kong went back to being part of China. And then these crazy net people had built their own version of it, like a big communal website, and they'd turned it inside out, vanished in there.

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [All Tomorrow's Parties](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/all-tomorrows-parties.md)
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> That other country, waiting.
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> He is by trade a keeper of the door to that country.
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> Drawn, the black blade becomes a key. When he holds it, he holds the wind in his hand.
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> The door swings gently open.
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> But he does not draw it now, and the traders see only a gray-haired man, wolfishly professorial…raises his hand to halt a passing cab. Though somehow they do not, as they easily might, rush to claim it as their own.

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