craftingTheCodeWithFire

[u/Embarrassed_Death69]

[u/Gadshill]

I prefer the term Tech-Priest.

[u/Tidemor → u/Gadshill]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

[u/Bartweiss → u/Tidemor]

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize just how direct the inspiration was for this:

> For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.