AftR episode 6 – Dentata Pacman, Bartholomew

Snow Crash chapters 9 & 10 are discussed.

We’re there as Hiro watches Da5id try the drug Snow Crash, and Hiro helps Y.T. regain her freedom.

Words:

• Bolus – A small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.  OR – A type of large pill used in veterinary medicine.
• Desultory – Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
• Tocsin – An alarm bell or signal.
• “Liquid Knuckles” – Mace / pepper spray, it seems…
• “Bundy stunners” – Context says it’s this universe’s Taser.
• “Franchulates” – Another Snow Crash-ism describing the self-governed “burbclaves”.

Phrases:

• “Any more of them and they’ll be able to form a government” — in reference to the number of jeeks as the border of Mr Lee’s Greater Hong Kong

AftR episode 6 – Dentata Pacman, Bartholomew

Snow Crash chapters 9 & 10 are discussed. We’re there as Hiro watches Da5id try the drug Snow Crash, and Hiro helps Y.T. regain her freedom. Words: Bolus – A small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.  OR - A type of large pill used in veterinary medicine.