“As if against her will, Moondreamer jabs a steak knife up her ass, causing immense joy. You hear Mr._Bungle laughing evilly in the distance” —Mr._Bungle, quoted by Julian Dibbell
“‘Where does the body end and the mind begin?’ young Quastro asked, amid recurring attempts to fine-tune the differences between real and virtual violence. ‘Is not the mind a part of the body?’ ‘In MOO, the body IS the mind,’ offered HerkieCosmo gamely, and not at all implausibly, demonstrating the ease with which very knotty metaphysical conundrums come undone in VR. The not-so-aptly named Obvious seemed to agree, arriving after sufficient consideration of the nature of Bungle’s crime at the hardly novel yet now somehow newly resonant conjecture that ‘all reality might consist of ideas, who knows.’” —Julian Dibbell