|
Sto caricando le informazioni... Cryptonomicon (originale 1999; edizione 2002)
|
Titolo canonico |
|
Titolo originale |
|
Titoli alternativi |
|
Data della prima edizione |
|
Personaggi |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. | |
|
Luoghi significativi |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. | |
|
Eventi significativi |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. | |
|
Film correlati |
|
Epigrafe |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. "There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system on which a message is enciphered corresponds to the laws of the universe, the intercepted messages to the evidence available, the keys for a day or a message to important constants which have to be determined. The correspondence is very close, but the subject matter of cryptography is very easily dealt with by discrete machinery, physics not so easily." —Alan Turing This morning [Imelda Marcos] offered the latest in a series of explanations of the billions of dollars that she and her husband, who died in 1989, are believed to have stolen during his presidency. "It so coincided that Marcos had money," she said. "After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold from Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny; America didn't understand him." —The New York Times, Monday, 4 March, 1996 | |
|
Dedica |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. To S. Town Stephenson, who flew kites from battleships | |
|
Incipit |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. Two tires fly. Two wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down. From it, warring sounds. | |
|
Citazioni |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation that always comes over him when he's not doing something that inherently needs to be done, like picking a lock or breaking a code. The ineffable talent for finding patterns in chaos cannot do its thing unless he immerses himself in the chaos first. This conspiracy thing is going to be a real pain in the ass if it means backing down from casual fistfights. LET’S SET THE existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate. After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, Godfrey Waterhouse IV was born, in Murdo, South Dakota, to Blanche, the wife of a Congregational preacher named Bunyan Waterhouse. Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo—which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn’t a stupendous badass was dead. Randy is a little bit turned around, but eventually homes in on a dimly heard electronic cacophony—digitized voices prophesying war—and emerges into the mall’s food court. One of his minions eventually had Randy sign a legal disclaimer stipulating that it was perfectly all right if the oral surgeon decided to feed Randy’s entire body into a log chipper, but this, for once, seemed like just a formality and not the opening round in an inevitable Bleak House-like litigational saga. "Filipinos are a warm, gentle, caring, giving people," Avi says, "which is a good thing since so many of them carry concealed weapons." "I strenuously object to being labeled and pigeonholed and stereotyped as a technocrat," Randy said, deliberately using oppressed-person's language, maybe in an attempt to turn their weapons against them but more likely (he thinks, lying in bed at three A.M. in the Manila Hotel) out of an uncontrollable urge to be a prick. This "sir, yes sir" business, which would probably sound like horseshit to any civilian in his right mind, makes sense to Shaftoe and to the officers in a deep and important way. Like a lot of others, Shaftoe had trouble with military etiquette at first. He soaked up quite a bit of it growing up in a military family, but living the life was a different matter. Having now experienced all the phases of military existence except for the terminal ones (violent death, court-martial, retirement), he has come to understand the culture for what it is: a system of etiquette within which it becomes possible for groups of men to live together for years, travel to the ends of the earth, and do all kinds of incredibly weird shit without killing each other or completely losing their minds in the process. The extreme formality with which he addresses these officers carries an important subtext: your problem, sir, is deciding what you want me to do, and my problem, sir, is doing it. | |
|
Ultime parole |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. For a long time there is really nothing to be seen except steam; but after Golgotha's been burning for an hour or two, it becomes possible to see that underneath the shallow water, spreading down the valley floor, indeed right around the isolated boulder where Randy's perched, is a bright, thick river of gold. (Click per vedere. Attenzione: può contenere anticipazioni.) | |
|
Nota di disambiguazione |
|
Redattore editoriale |
|
Elogi |
|
Lingua originale |
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua. | |
|
DDC/MDS Canonico |
|
LCC canonico |
|
|
Discussioni correntiNessunoGoogle Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...
|