<story><title>William Gibson is a literary genius</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-william-gibson-is-a-literary-genius/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>I love reading Gibson.  His prose is brilliant.&lt;p&gt;In his book &amp;quot;Pattern Recognition&amp;quot; he spends the first page and half describing jet-lag in such brilliant manner that you feel like you just experienced art.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I feel his plot&amp;#x2F;stories never seem to hold up.  
I will always consider him an artist.  Something to savor.  I&amp;#x27;ve always felt that it was superior to true &amp;#x27;literature&amp;#x27; in that each word is a morsel that adds to the whole and not up to the interpretation of the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>Excerpt:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien&amp;#x27;s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can&amp;#x27;t move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>William Gibson is a literary genius</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-william-gibson-is-a-literary-genius/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>I love reading Gibson.  His prose is brilliant.&lt;p&gt;In his book &amp;quot;Pattern Recognition&amp;quot; he spends the first page and half describing jet-lag in such brilliant manner that you feel like you just experienced art.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I feel his plot&amp;#x2F;stories never seem to hold up.  
I will always consider him an artist.  Something to savor.  I&amp;#x27;ve always felt that it was superior to true &amp;#x27;literature&amp;#x27; in that each word is a morsel that adds to the whole and not up to the interpretation of the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgv</author><text>For me, it&amp;#x27;s the casual way in which he introduces new concepts and words, not breaking the flow of the sentence, leaving it as an exercise for the reader to determine their meaning as the story unfolds and paints a fairly convincing picture of the near future.&lt;p&gt;The friend who introduced me to Gibson was also lyrical about the jet lag passage, but I remember thinking that traveling North-South would be a counter example. Anyway, it is well written.</text></comment>