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ssfsx17
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Is it just me, or is Milgrim basically the opposite of Case?


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Can you explain this theory some more?

What makes you think he is the opposite?



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Interesting. I think I see where you're coming from ssfsx17. Wintermute/Armitage/Molly traded the information to the doctors to bypass Case's amphetamine addiction so that he could be a better tool for them. Brown feeds Milgrim's addiction so Milgrim functions as a better tool for Brown. Case's real addiction was running in the matrix though and Wintermute kept him around with the toxin sacks in his veins


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quote:
Originally posted by Eric:
Interesting. I think I see where you're coming from ssfsx17. Wintermute/Armitage/Molly traded the information to the doctors to bypass Case's amphetamine addiction so that he could be a better tool for them. Brown feeds Milgrim's addiction so Milgrim functions as a better tool for Brown. Case's real addiction was running in the matrix though and Wintermute kept him around with the toxin sacks in his veins


Wow. It's been a long time since I reread Neuromance. Forgot just how much Gob had running around that plot structure.


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ssfsx17
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Some other points I'd thought of:

- Case desires an exciting life and is addicted to uppers, Milgrim had a pretty bog-standard life as an interpreter and is addicted to downers

- In the end, Case evolves beyond his addiction and can now get high on life itself, Milgrim's future is rather uncertain but he seems like he's headed for another bog-standard life of academics


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Originally posted by ssfsx17:
Some other points I'd thought of:

- Case desires an exciting life and is addicted to uppers, Milgrim had a pretty bog-standard life as an interpreter and is addicted to downers

- In the end, Case evolves beyond his addiction and can now get high on life itself, Milgrim's future is rather uncertain but he seems like he's headed for another bog-standard life of academics
I think you misunderstand Case. He aquired the speed addiction as a surrogate for the addiction to escaping his meat self in the non-space of the matrix. At the end he has that back. It's a deeper, more complicated addiction, escaping the self. One might argue it lies at the root of all addiction. Case has never, ever, "been high on life." Sorry, man.


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