The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. -- William Gibson Mary Iverson: Tipsoo Lake, After (2014, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in.) In William Gibson's 2007 novel Spook Country, a hi-tech, cloak-and-dagger narrative revolves around an elusive shipping container which is both totally central and basically irrelevant to the storyline and its meaning. A perfect device, it carries the plot along as a box might its contents, oblivious and smooth -- except to the three ...
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. -- William Gibson Mary Iverson: Tipsoo Lake, After (2014, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in.) In William Gibson's 2007 novel Spook Country, a hi-tech, cloak-and-dagger narrative revolves around an elusive shipping container which is both totally central and basically irrelevant to the storyline and its meaning. A perfect device, it carries the plot along as a box might its contents, oblivious and smooth -- except to the three ...
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