Snow Crash/ Just Kids/ Patti Smith/ Huck Finn/ Rock and Roll Nigger

Snow Crash is a novel written by Neal Stephenson and published in 1992.  He writes:

"This is America.  People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that?  Because they have a right to.  And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.  As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.  When it gets down to it--talking trade balances here--once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here--once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel--once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakastani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity"...

With it's themes of virus as language and language as infection all involved in creating the next step from the internet: the Metaverse, Snow Crash is a prophetic....to be continued...this book is impossible for me to write about...because of too many kids and too many snow days...and because there is absolutely no redeeming qualities about the protagonists that keep the reader turning the pages....I've written about many books that are hard to put down....this one is hard to pick up....and what's really funny is that this quality has become a virtue of the book!...just look at the huge Wikipedia entry about Snow Crash and you will see 800 things that I never saw while reading this text.....BUT;  my friend V. gave me this, so I've been reading this:

Yes this is a sci-fi blog, but, (o.k. in it she talks of looking for UFO's with her dad through a telescope....I mean how many kids do that these days?  And of dating a science fiction writer for a swordfish dinner; wonder which one it was?) I started reading the Patti Smith book, Just Kids, got to page 87, yes I'm taking my sweet time with this one, and you know what?, it connects to Snow Crash (cos I said so)...with it's themes of biblical computer language and biblical voice cacophony of Babel, and guess what was the name of my very first Patti Smith poetry book:...............
 "Babel," yes; correct... 
So, it's a great book so far, and, in a month where they (they is "Big Brother," natch) are going to "whitewash," err...sanitize, uh, well "Huck Finn" is gonna be published with the word "Nigger" ....Orwellian?...well...

He who controls the past
Controls the present
He who controls the present
Controls the future

"Nigger" is a pretty bad word generally; unless speaking of Conrad's : "Nigger of the Narcissus", and now with Huck Finn sanitized, Keith Olbermann removed in a mini-purge...my only question is: Who's Next?

Here's one for the Huck Finn sanitizers: The great Patti Smith Band doing the incredible Babalogue and  "Rock and Roll Nigger:" (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)