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WG: But this is sort of... this is a... this is a lot more intense than
going on one of those things, 'cos it's sort of the end of... three
months of... no, not three months, it just feels like three months.
Three previous weeks of promotion before I came... In the States and
Canada before I came and started... started in London.

MR: Yes. I've been reading some interviews on the Net, in papers...

WG: Yeah, and you go home and rest for a week and you feel okay physically
but then you get back out on the road and there's some sort of
cumulative psychological effect.

MR: I'm just curious, because in the second Sprawl book you had Turner, and
he saw himself dissolved from hotel room to hotel room. And yet in
_Virtual Light_ Rydell... he likes staying there. He likes the... the
opulence of the closed shopping malls and all. So, do you feel you're
accepting it more?

WG: Oh I don't know. Oh... you lost me there. Rydell likes?

MR: He seemed to be able to cope with being on Cops in Trouble a lot more
naturally.

WG: Oh. Oh. Ah. Right. Oh, well, you know, he doesn't get more than a taste
of it you know? That's the thing. It's a... His time in... his time...
well he might have... What does he have, like two weeks? It's not
really clear from the... It could be a week you know? It just... it
just doesn't last very long for him. He never gets to feel that he's a
part... a part of this sort of thing. But you know... it's interesting.
It's interesting to see it... and it's only once in a while. I mean,
Hollywood is like this too. It's kind of their standard worker housing.
They put people... they put people in incredibly fancy hotels that...
mostly probably collect their money from movie studios and big... big
companies.

MR: It's a strange world out there.

WG: Yeah. Like one thing you realise when you spend more time in places
like this is that all of them... well, hardly any of them who's staying
here is paying their own bill. It's all corporate accounts. This is
actually a very amiable kind of place, you know? The thing that's nice
about it is that it's real. It's not a reproduction of anything.

MR: If I remember right, when they had a rebellion here in 1916 I think the
place was used for barracks.

WG: Yeah. It's sort of a real place and kind of relaxed compared to... you
know, in America the equivalent thing would be three simulacra removed
from reality and kind of too self conscious to ever be very good.