[reading] Pattern Recognition [Buy: Amazon UK | Amazon US] … ‘There must always be room for coincidence, Win had maintained. When there’s not, you’re probably well into apophenia, each thing then perceived as part of an overarching pattern of conspiracy. And while comforting yourself with the symmetry of it all, he’d believed, you stood all too real a chance of missing the genuine threat, which was invariably less symmetrical, less perfect. But which he always, she knew, took for granted was there.’
There must always be room for coincidence…
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Weirdly, I read ‘Pattern Recognition’ a month or two back. Being the first Gibson book I’ve read, it’s completely different from what I was expecting, and completely excellent for it.
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