How Zionites refer to Western Society, specifically Freeside and the Villa Straylight.
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Babylon Term Timeline in Neuromancer
The timeline below shows where the term Babylon appears in Neuromancer. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
...a chance to jack into cyberspace, but Aerol dislikes it. To him, it looks like “Babylon.”
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...calls Molly Steppin’ Razor, from Zionite mythology about a woman who brings “a scourge on Babylon […] on its darkest heart.”
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...wonders if they work for Armitage, but they cryptically explain they have “no regard for Babylon’s law,” only the law of “Jah,” although they may be mistaken.
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