The catch-ropes used in the workaday life of the cowboys are usually made of an extra quality hemp rope that is exceptionally smooth and hard in finish.

In fact, they are intertwined with his dauntingly complex and far-reaching ideas about predicativity, the semantic paradoxes, and the ramified vs. the simple theory of types—all of which are fascinating, and some of which involve real technical achievements.

The shopping-mall metaphor is quite self-consciously deployed because, according to Sirius, commerce is the ocean information swims in; unapologetically libertarian, Mondo 2000 evokes and hucksterizes an elect audience of posthuman youth consumers, cyberbeings of undying pubescence with an unquenchable appetite for commodified prostheses, given to restlessly cruising the electronic mallworlds of information.

Like he had a right to be uptight about Liv screwing whoever she pleased. He'd worked through six condoms—or was it seven?—in a tequila haze with the fuckbunny duo from the Hole.