Part 2 Chapter 12 Snow Crash Details

Snow Crash Details11

Hiro Description (p.20)22

"cappuccino skin and spiky dreadlocks."33

Hair not covering head "like it used to".44

Young man, "by no means bald or balding."55

Slightly retreating hairline.66

High cheekbones. Origins: Black-and-Nippon.77

Y.T. (15) embarrassed to be seen with88

An oldster like him. (p. 121)99

Da5id Meier supreme … father of the Metaverse1010

Thrown out of his own bar. (p. 77)1111

Y.T. is dressed in uniform with pockets. (p. 77)1212

Hiro and Juanita "Adam and Eve" of Metaverse. (p. 63)1313

Three M's of software: Music, Movies and Microcode. (p. 100)1414

Y.T. is dressed in Mom's clothes. (p. 101)1515

Vial with red plastic cap: Snow crash. (p. 161)1616

"The kinds of people who feel most at home 1717

on the dark side of a one-way mirror. (p. 177)1818

glass vial tiddlywinks underneath wheel. (p. 193)1919

Y.T. is a "trashy black-and-white person". (p. 220)2020

"The tongue of Eden was like a flawless glass: 2121

a light … streaming through it." (p. 278)2222

"It / doesn't always come out the way you want. Like a dusty pane or warped mirror." (p. 279)2323

"imagination to think of what happens to lone fifteen-year-old blond American girls …." (p. 323) (p. 167)2424

"The Metaverse has now become a place where you can get killed.2525

… Guns have come to Paradise." (p. 351)2626

"The virus that ate through Da5id's brain was a string of binary information, shone into his face in the form of a bitmap -- a series of white and black pixels …." (p. 351)2727

"Snowscan is a piece of medicine -- code that protects Hiro's system --from the digital Snow Crash virus." (p. 352)2828

"On the street, avatars just walk right through each other." (p. 40)2929

"invisible avatars are illegal." (p. 353) "no entry private property."3030

"black-and-white avatar" [Raven] (pp. 42-43; pp. 66, 72)3131

Da5id's face viewed through a piece of shattered glass. (p. 76)3232

"computer dies of Snow Crash." (p. 375)3333

"So for us, he devised a means for extracting the virus from human blood serum and packaged it as a drug known as Snow Crash." (p. 404)3434

"When it is placed in a computer, it snow-crashes the computer by causing it to infect itself with new viruses. … The binary metavirus will destroy the mind of a hacker." (p. 405)3535

Hiro and Juanita relationship. (p. 432) Juanita Marquez (p. 56)3636

Y.T. and Raven relationship. (p. 379) dentata (p. 383)3737

end of Y.T. relationship with Raven. (p. 454) end of Raven (p. 466)3838

What is the color of Y.T.'s coverall? When does it turn black?3939