"Mike Rogers - gibson interview" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gibson Walter)

MR: What music are you listening to right now? What strikes you?

WG: PJ Harvey's second album. A San Francisco band called Come, that's
see oh em ee. A West German band called Plan B who have an album out
that's unfortunately titled Cyberchords and Sushi Stories.

MR: What about Cybercore Network?

WG: ... Never heard of it.

MR: Oh well.

WG: Yeah.

MR: The in-jokes weren't as heavily larded in _Virtual Light_.

WG: No, I just think they missed them. No, they're more subtle.

MR: The music jokes?

WG: There were probably more of those in Neuromancer than there were in the
later... the other two, I would think. Yeah. Yeah. _Virtual Light_ is
filled with in-jokes, but you have to know... It's not fair if I tell
them what they are.

MR: The one right at the end where the only thing at the market that failed
to be sold, that's thrown on the trash heap, that's the Columbia
Literary History of the United States.

WG: Yeah.

MR: That's a bit harsh. An unpopular book?

WG: That's one of them.

MR: There was a large literary conference on here recently. Toni Morrison,
big names. The theme was Homelands. What I want to ask you is, well,
born in South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, living in Canada. Do you
think that that dilutes your sense of nationhood? They were keen on it.

WG: Oh, well... What it means... Yeah...

MR: How do you feel about it?

WG: Yeah. Oh, well. Hmmm. That's a... Oh well, interestingly put... ... ...
I think what it's done is it's made me... made me a globalist in some
way that's not entirely... ... ... isn't entirely theoretical... ...
... Yeah, I mean, naturally it's put... it's putting it too
dramatically, but you could say it was literally true that early on in
life I had the experience of, of, of... exilehood, essentially for