"Rudy Rucker - Postsingular Outtakes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rucker Rudy)

DonтАЩt let them get to you, Craigor.тАЭ She had a quick mental image of two sheets of reality caressing each
other, each of the parallel branes causing the other to glow.

5: Attack Ad Against Lampton. A flicker, a pop, and control of this particular President Bernardo
icon had shifted into the hands of his political rivals. Wearing a slack, imbecilic grin, the President
dropped his pants, squatted on the sidewalk, took a crap, wiped his ass with a pocket-sized American
flag, and then fumbled in his crotch to beginтАФ

тАЬHurry up!тАЭ called Kittie, looking back at them. тАЬWeтАЩre gonna lose the pancakes. Oh, what is that
supposed to be?тАЭ

тАЬHomesteady Party attack ad,тАЭ said Jayjay, looking away from the degraded President Bernard
Lampton. тАЬTheyтАЩre pumping out all this viral adware for the election.тАЭ LamptonтАЩs image duck-walked
towards Kittie, the President leering up at her as he fondled himself.




6: Gnarly Food. Like other loyal viewers of Founders, the Posse occasionally rooted through the
garbage cans at Puff. Some of the entrees came in emulsified form, resembling pastel blobs of whipped
cream. The chicken and spinach foam had tasted good, but the yam and shrimp aerogel had been fairly
nastyтАФthanks to the fact that, Jayjay had realized to late, the aerogel had been touching an emptied-out
cabernet-enema tube.

Jose started a competing restaurant down the street called MouthPlus. Ripoff copycat that he was, he
took most of NektarтАЩs new ideas with him and, pig that he was, he pushed them over the edge. You
could order an intravenous food drip at MouthPlus, a food or wine enema and certain of the
wait-persons were even willing to provide customers with appetizers pre-warmed in their own body
cavitiesтАФactually this only happened a few times before the Board of Health shut the practice down, but
the buzz gave MouthPlus an annoying amount of heat.

7: Thuy Quotes Leary. тАЬSheтАЩs rehearsing a metasymphony with the Kazakhstan orchestra,тАЭ said Thuy
loftily, her high pigtails swaying. тАЬIтАЩm going to sample it for Metotem. DonтАЩt look so insultingly blank, you
know damn well IтАЩm talking about my metanovel. IтАЩve been collaging in all these great sounds and images
and ideas. IтАЩm just not ready to show it to anyone yet. Tune out, turn in, drop on.тАЭ It was typical kiqqie
to fuck with the word order of clich├йs, especially typical for Thuy, who thought about language all the
time. She stuck out her tongue at Kittie and waggled it. тАЬAm I тАШhotтАЩ yet?тАЭ




8: Mirrorbraner Snatches Corpse. And now he was seeing Grandmaster Green Flash lying there
dead. Sucked dry by the Big Pig.
тАЬLeaving his sheltered palace, the unworldly twenty-nine-year-old Prince Siddhartha met four divine
messengers that were to change his destiny,тАЭ intoned Thuy, getting all arty. тАЬThe first three were an old
man, an invalid, and a corpse. The fourth messenger was a wandering ascetic, who revealed the path of
non-attachment, whereby all suffering can be transcended.тАЭ

тАЬShort version,тАЭ said Kittie. тАЬ(1) Life sucks (2) and then you die; (3) get over it and (4) chill.тАЭ