One of the more unexpectedly insightful passages in Spook Country:
He looked up at a 1992 calendar, level with his eyes, and about ten inches away. Someone had quit pulling the months off, in August. It advertised a commercial real estate firm, and was decorated with a drastically color-saturated daytime photograph of the
"We call his trip of terror: to fly a giant bird."
An interview with Charles Manson's webmaster.
"As for having access to the web, the web is my mind. I brought the web into play. The web is my church." - Manson himself.
Somehow, that seems accurate. And poetic. My students will be composing a poem using "The web is my church" as the first line.