Snow Crash chapters 9 & 10 are discussed.

We're there as Hiro watches Da5id try the drug Snow Crash, and Hiro helps Y.T. regain her freedom.

Words:

• Bolus - A small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.  OR - A type of large pill used in veterinary medicine.
• Desultory - Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
• Tocsin - An alarm bell or signal.
• "Liquid Knuckles" - Mace / pepper spray, it seems...
• "Bundy stunners" - Context says it's this universe's Taser.
• “Franchulates” - Another Snow Crash-ism describing the self-governed "burbclaves".

Phrases:

• “Any more of them and they’ll be able to form a government” -- in reference to the number of jeeks as the border of Mr Lee’s Greater Hong Kong

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