Diamond Age
I re-read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. I liked it even better than the first time. I was looking for the passage about King Coyote:
Castles, gardens, gold and jewels
Contentment signify, for fools
Like Princess Nell; but those
Who cultivate their wit
Like King Coyote and his crows
Compile their power bit by bit
And hide it places no one knows.(The Diamond Age, p. 437)
After I found that passage, I found it hard to put the book down, and I read from p. 437 to the end, and then from the beginning up to p. 437, and then from p. 437 to the end again. It's very good.
(Princess Nell certainly turns out to be no fool.)
