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by michaelt 20 days ago
Isn't that Stephenson driving home the faceless drone, cog-in-the-machine characterisation of YT's mom?

I mean, literally not giving the character a name fits right in with the alienating working conditions of the quote above, and the fact YT's mom is working on a software cog with no understanding of the machine it fits into.

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But she did have a name in the story.