“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”

Source: Count Zero (1986), Ch. 2, Marly's sensory link conversation interview with Herr Virek.

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