Dan quotes Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash:
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Dan (intrepid twenty-three-year-old spacefarer he!) has landed a great job, the kind I’d like to do sometime. He can decide whether or not to say more about it, but trust me: it’s as tubular as Torus Trooper, groovy as Percival Lowell’s Mars, etc.
chris | 30-Sep-05 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
Also until about 30 every man wants to be part of a heist, like in the movie heat.