One of the ways in which Gibson has represented this ‘when-it-all-changed’ in earlier works has been to supply characters who are unable to interpret, or ‘draw the boundaries’, of their world due to the lack of critical perspective that is available to them from within their ‘total’ urban environment. They have no ‘outside’, either geographical or historical, by which they can measure and make sense of their own lives, no possibility for ‘pattern recognition’, only for apophenia.
– Richard Skeates, 2004, ‘A Melancholy Future Poetic’, City 4, p. 139.
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