Jeremy Linch
Professor Merrow
Explication Draft 2
March 3, 2016 In this essay I will examine a passage from Will Gibson’s Idoru was published in the year 1996 and is set in 21st century. I will start work with the passage on pages 191 and 192. The passage begins with “Steep, narrow stairs, walled with an alarming pink mosaic of glistening tonsil-like nodules” and ending with “Laney clicked through a series of images: abstract geometrics arranged in vanishing linear perspective”. First I will describe the constituent elements and the overall structure of the selected passage, not the entire essay. Then I will transition into a section about the relations that the constituent elements have to the other elements in the passage. Lastly I will discuss the different possibilities of meaning shaped by the structure. I will show the different structures, examine how they relate to each other and what that could possibly mean. I examined the passage in Chapter 21 where Laney is entering the chewing gum bar named “Le Chicle”. The main textual ideas include the combination of cultures, the importance of geometric shapes, and the lack of human attribute descriptions. It start on page 191 with the line “Steep, narrow stairs, walled with an alarming pink mosaic of glistening tonsil-like nodules.” The passage I examined ends with the quote on page 192, “Laney clicked through a series of images: abstract geometrics arranged in vanishing linear perspective.” Immediately prior to this section Laney and McCrae passed by a man in a hazmat suit while standing on stilts. They recognize that he is a member of the group known as “New Logic” the group believes that the world will end when the human race hits a specific weight overall of the planet. After this passage the two continue to discuss DatAmerica and Laney’s uncanny ability to recognize patterns. The first structure that I