# Quote — William Gibson, Virtual Light

> And then they were fading, breaking up into those paisley fractal things, and Rydell knew he was losing them.
>
> “Wait. Any of you live in San Francisco?”
>
> The dinosaur came flickering back. “What if we did?”
>
> “Well, do you like it?…Because it’s all going to change. They’re going to do it like they’re doing Tokyo.”
>
> “Tokyo? Who told you that?”
>
> Now the mountain was back, too. “There’s not a lot of slack, for us, in Tokyo, now…”
>
> “Tell us” the dinosaur said.
>
> So Rydell did.

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [Virtual Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/virtual-light.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bridge_trilogy#Virtual_Light_(1993)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/virtual-light/and-then-they

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> They’d been putting condos into the shell of this big old Safeway out on Jefferson Davis. The architects wanted the cinder block walls stripped just this one certain way…They were from Memphis and they wore black suits and white cotton shirts…Rydell had figured that that was a way for architects to dress; now he lived in L.A., he knew it was true. He’d overheard one of them explaining to the foreman that what they were doing was exposing the integrity of the material’s passage through time. He thought that was probably bullshit, but he sort of liked the sound of it anyway; like what happened to old people on television.

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> Rydell looked around. That ol’ Rapture was big at Nightmare Folk Art, he decided. Those kind of Christians, his father had always maintained, were just pathetic. There the Millennium had up, come, and gone, no Rapture to speak of, and here they were, still beating that same drum.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/virtual-light/rydell-looked-around.md)

> The women wore clothes Chevette had only seen in magazines. Rich people, had to be, and foreign, too. Though maybe rich was foreign enough.

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