"Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stephenson Neal)

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First published in the USA by Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell
Published Group. inc. 1992
First published in Great Britain by Roc 1993
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Copyright ~ Neal Stephenson, 1992
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(iratefui acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint a drawing from
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
Copyright ~ Julian Jaynes, 1976. Reprinted by permission of
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snow n... 2.a. Anything resembling snow. b. The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.

crashv.., .-infr.. . . 5, To fail suddenly,as abusiness or an economy.
-The Amencan I-Ientizge Dictionary

virus.. . . [L. virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste.] 1. Venom, such as is emitted by a poisonous animal. 2. Path. a. A morbid principle or poisonous substance produced in the body as the result of some disease, esp. one capable of being introduced into other persons or animals by inoculations or otherwise and of developing the same disease in them.. . . 3. fIg. A moral or intellectual poison, or poisonous influence.
-The Oxford English Dictionary