Part 3

"Her accent put her south along the Sprawl, in Atlanta -"

[REF, HER]

In this case, rather than making a cultural reference to something purely invented by Gibson and placed in the context of Gibson's invented cyberpunk universe, Gibson references the Southern accent common to a real American city - Atlanta, Georgia, although the mystery remains whether this accent is anything like an American Southern accent, or what it means to live "south along the Sprawl." In this way, Gibson both grounds the text in our existing cultural context, but does not truly answer the question of whether this cultural context is really a valid comparison within the world of "Neuromancer."

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