# Quote — William Gibson, Burning Chrome

> "Last week I was in Virginia. Grayson County," Kihn said. "I interviewed a sixteen-year-old girl who'd been assaulted 'bya bar hade.'"
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> "A what?"
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> "A bear head. The severed head of a bear. This bar hade, see, was floating around on its own little flying saucer…Now that is the…straight goods from the mass unconscious. That little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on 'The Bionic Man' and all those Star Trek reruns. She is clued into the main vein."

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [Burning Chrome](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/burning-chrome.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Burning_Chrome_(short_story_collection,_1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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> Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things.

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> "But why?" Korolev shook his head, deeply confused. "Why have you come?"
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> "We told you. To live here…Who'd want to live out here for the sake of some government, some army brass, a bunch of pen pushers? You have to want a frontier—want it in your bones, right?"
>
> Korolev smiled. Andy grinned back.

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> When the knocking came, he knew that it must be a dream as well.
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> The hatch wheeled open.
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> He saw that the woman was black. Long corkscrews of matted hair rose like cobras around her head.
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> "Andy," she said in English, "you better come see this!"
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> "Is he alive?"
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> "Of course I am alive." said Korolev in slightly accented English.
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> The man called Andy sailed in over her head. "You okay, Jack?" His right bicep was tattooed with a geodesic balloon above crossed lightning bolts and bore the legend SUNSPARK 15, UTAH. "We weren't expecting anybody."
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> "Neither was I," said Korolev, blinking.

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