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Jun. 6th, 2008 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanI'm not going to be posting the text of my Snow Crash vs. VALIS paper because I don't think it's all that well-written, as far as my papers go, but here is the summary:
ETA: Hooray for totally changing your mind about the point of your analysis 1 hour before the paper is due. Whatever.
Hopefully I can whip five pages of babbling into something that says that coherently, and I can do it before 5 PM.
Snow Crash and VALIS are both about people who get infected by informational viruses that turn out to be religion, but in Snow Crash, the virus is bad, gods aren't real, and the way we see reality is determined by language, whereas in VALIS, the virus is good, the gods are real, and reality is an illusion created by us being language. This might be because Philip K. Dick was schizophrenic and Neal Stephenson most likely has the Asperger's.
ETA: Hooray for totally changing your mind about the point of your analysis 1 hour before the paper is due. Whatever.
Hopefully I can whip five pages of babbling into something that says that coherently, and I can do it before 5 PM.