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  1. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like a true hacker or hackette. I think this lacking is the most unmodern facet of my personality-the career equivalent of having six fingers, or a vestigial tail.
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  2. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    And so the point of this story is that when I first met you at the photocopy machine, sure, we talked like a telethon and everything, but the perfume you were wearing then-that perfume was the smell of my stamp album, the smell of countries I always wanted to visit but never thought I'd be able to. It was like you had the world inside you.
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  3. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    The store is also lit to the point of painfulness by a ceiling loaded with more fluorescent bulbs than a landing mothership. Shielding my headachey eyes, I make my consumer choices, then head to the counter, where the clerk is wearing sunglasses. I pay the clerk with a five-dollar bill on which I have felt-penned the words:I AM AFRAID OF THE DARK AGES."
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  4. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.
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  5. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    Those were big years, big times.
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  6. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    These were citizens who, never having bothered to awaken to the technological and psychic changes in their world, hadn't bothered to defend themselves, hadn't bothered to build walls or plan counterattacks or build weapons-- asleep inside their collective dream, thinking for all the world that the unthinkable would never happen. Thinking they were safe.
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  7. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    Mphhh... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me.I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up--the world is alive.
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  8. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.
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  9. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    Keep your treasure to yourself.
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  10. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    I called Mom from the hotel during the period of peace, I'd turned out all of the lights and closed the curtains in pursuit of sensory deprivation. It was Black and sensationless. All There was in the room was my voice and mom's voice trickling out of the phone's earpiece, and this feeling passed through me-this feeling of what a gift it is that people are able to speak to each other while they're alive. These casual conversations, this familiar voice heard through a Las Vegas hotel room telephone. It was strange to realize that, in one since, all we are is our voice.
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  11. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future.
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  12. Douglas Coupland _ Shampoo Planet

    Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we approach a state of moistness? There was a storm and we didn't even know.
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