quote:

Originally posted by Splitcoil:

Agreed and, as usual, better expressed than I could manage. I think it's his ability to suck me into his own fascinations that keeps pulling me back to his writing. From vat-grown ninja to white-trash troubled cop, to the Brabusian excesses of Bigend, it's that fascination with changing patterns that grabs me. Nobody beats him on that.

quote:

Originally posted by cbarreto:
It seems for me that reality for WG is like an OSI Network Abstraction Model, with several layers. Most of us are at the "application layer", so all we can see are the peer applications. But living at the application layer is not satisfying if you want to know the "why" of the things. Then, there are characters that are able to go one level down, lets say to the "presentation layer" where we get access to standardized data representations... and then down to the "session layer" where the protocols that "bind" things are established etc... all the way down to the "physical layer" where "all real things happen" (what is a real thing anyways???).