“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
It's not like I'm using,' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat.
It’s like my body’s developed this massive drug deficiency.’ It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese.
Ratz was tending bar, his prosthetic arm jerking monotonously as he filled a tray of glasses with draft Kirin. He saw Case and smiled, his teeth a webwork of East European steel and brown decay.”