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The high wore away, the chromed skeleton corroding hourly, flesh growing solid, the drug-flesh replaced with the meat of his life. He couldn't think. He liked that very much, to be conscious and unable to think.

William Gibson

William Gibson (b. 1948), U.S. science fiction (cyberpunk) writer. Neuromancer, ch. 12, Ace Science Fiction (1984).

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