"But why would we, at Streetsblog, care about a writer who has bent literary genres for three-plus decades as he's bounded between California and Brooklyn with nary a thought for the car culture against which we rage daily? Why would we care about the author of two acclaimed novels - "The Fortress of Solitude" and "Brooklyn Crime Novel" - that are among the greatest in American literature when they don't even offer a morsel of a subplot about how cars ruined our cities?"
"Gifford knows it is all his own fault. He's one of the current generation of chips built to incorporate a yesdrugs/nodrugs option, and he's been opting yesdrugs far too frequently. He likes yesdrugs: it mottles his perceptions, introduces a random factor into his image processing, and induces a time/percept/distort. The drawbacks - which he has of course not experienced so directly - are that it shortens his"
Scenes include class struggle, infirm secondary superheroes, suicidal sheep, and sex that literally knocks participants into a different time zone. One narrative centers on car culture and the velvet handcuffs of autocracy, portraying a cop in a walker body confronting Gifford, whose walker status and karma have fallen. Gifford is equipped with a yesdrugs/nodrugs chip option and has been choosing yesdrugs frequently. Yesdrugs mottles perception, introduces randomness into image processing, and induces time-perceptual distortions. The perceived benefits come at a cost: the drug shortens the user's life and deepens dependency within an authoritarian control system.
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