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got so much antiviral medicine in my system that nothing could get through.
Chpt 9-10

antiviral = an agent that works against viruses

standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiviral means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antibacterial, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
An expression like that is just like a virus, you know-it's a piece of information-data— that spreads from one person to the next.
Chpt 13-14

virus = infectious germ
It's the atomic bomb of informational warfare-a virus that causes any system to infect itself with new viruses.
Chpt 25-26

virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
It's the atomic bomb of informational warfare-a virus that causes any system to infect itself with new viruses.
Chpt 25-26

viruses = software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
Kind of in the same way that a virus moves from one computer to another, damaging each computer in the same way.
Chpt 27-28 *

virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
I wonder if viruses have always been with us, or not. There's sort of an implicit assumption that they have been around forever.
Chpt 29-30 *

viruses = tiny germs that cause disease by taking over cells
That is, it is code that protects Hiro's system-both his hardware and, as Lagos would put it, his bioware-from the digital Snow Crash virus.
Chpt 47-48

virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
We still see new DNA viruses from time to time, but it seems that our bodies have developed a resistance to DNA viruses in general.
Chpt 55-56

viruses = tiny germs that cause disease by taking over cells
We still see new DNA viruses from time to time, but it seems that our bodies have developed a resistance to DNA viruses in general.
Chpt 55-56
Does every viral idea have a biological virus counterpart?
Chpt 55-56 *

viral = spreading rapidly and widely from person to person -- especially through the internet or social media
Does every viral idea have a biological virus counterpart?
Chpt 55-56

virus = tiny germ that causes disease by taking over cells
When it is placed into a computer, it snow-crashes the computer by causing it to infect itself with new viruses.
Chpt 57-58

viruses = software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
—The Amencan I-Ientizge Dictionary virus......[L.†
Chpt 1-2
virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste.]†
Chpt 1-2
That is, if your personal computer is infected with viruses, and attempts to spread them via The Black Sun, you had better keep one eye on the ceiling.†
Chpt 7-8
Hiro walks away, the same way he walks away from psychotic street people who follow him down the street "It tells you that evil is a virus!"†
Chpt 15-16
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle: what thrives in one place will thrive in another.†
Chpt 23-24
This Snow Crash thing-is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?†
Chpt 25-26
Now, religion used to be essentially viral-a piece of information that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next.†
Chpt 25-26
Another attempt was made by Jesus-that one was hijacked by viral influences within fifty days of his death.†
Chpt 25-26
The virus was suppressed by the Catholic Church, but we're in the middle of a big epidemic that started in Kansas in 1900 and has been gathering momentum ever since.†
Chpt 25-26
Juanita just told me that Christianity was hijacked by viral influences when it was only fifty days old.†
Chpt 27-28
Speaking of which-Lagos was babbling to me about viruses and infection and something called a nam-shub.†
Chpt 27-28
How does this stuff connect, if at all, to the subject of viruses?†
Chpt 27-28
He felt that the nam-shub of Enki was a neurolinguistic virus.†
Chpt 27-28
And that Enki invented this virus and spread it throughout Sumer, using tablets like this one?†
Chpt 27-28
I don't want to say virus.†
Chpt 29-30
But according to what you just quoted me, the Torah is like a virus.†
Chpt 29-30
When you were going over this stuff with Lagos, did he ever say anything about the Bible being a virus?†
Chpt 29-30
He said it had certain things in common with a virus, but that it was different.†
Chpt 29-30
He considered it a benign virus.†
Chpt 29-30
He considered the Asherah virus to be more malignant, capable of being spread through exchange of bodily fluids.†
Chpt 29-30
So the strict, book-based religion of the deuteronomists inoculated the Hebrews against the Asherah virus.†
Chpt 29-30
As such, in Lagos's view, it was much less susceptible to viral infection because it was based on fixed, written records.†
Chpt 29-30
It seems that Asherah was a carrier of a viral infection.†
Chpt 29-30
"With reference to viral infections," the Librarian says, "if I may make a fairly blunt?†
Chpt 29-30
spontaneous cross-reference-something lam coded to do at opportune moments-you may wish to examine herpes simplex, a virus that takes up residence in the nervous system and never leaves.†
Chpt 29-30
So did Lagos think that the Asherah virus actually altered the DNA of brain cells?†
Chpt 29-30
This was the backbone of his hypothesis that the virus was able to transmute itself from a biologically transmitted string of DNA into a set of behaviors.†
Chpt 29-30
Great way to spread a virus.†
Chpt 29-30
And at a certain point, when the metavirus showed up, the number of different viruses exploded, and people started getting sick a whole lot.†
Chpt 29-30
If they'd known what a virus was, they probably would have thought the same thing.†
Chpt 29-30
It's as though 'good' and 'evil' were invented by the writer of the Adam and Eve legend to explain why people get sick-why they have physical and mental viruses.†
Chpt 29-30
So when Eve-or Asherah —got Adam to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she was introducing the concept of good and evil into the world-introducing the metavirus, which creates viruses.†
Chpt 29-30
"Spreading that virus," Hiro says.†
Chpt 33-34
Makes sense, because they probably had no concept of pure water-it was all brown and muddy and full of viruses anyway.†
Chpt 33-34
But from a modem standpoint, semen is just a carrier of information-both benevolent sperm and malevolent viruses.†
Chpt 33-34
Assume that the nam-shub of Enki really functioned as a virus.†
Chpt 35-36
Theories Lagos tried to apply to his virus hypothesis.†
Chpt 35-36
Lagos believed that for this reason, Sumerian was a language ideally suited to the creation and propagation of viruses.†
Chpt 35-36

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Definitions:

(1) (virus as in: Covid 19 virus)
a tiny infectious agent that causes disease by invading living cells and using them to make more copies of itself

Although viruses contain genetic material, they can only reproduce by hijacking the reproductive machinery of a cell they invade.
(2) (virus as in: computer virus)
a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software

Computer viruses are so-named because like a biological virus, they contain instructions on how to reproduce, but require the infected computer to actually execute the instructions.
(3) (viral as in: it went viral)
spreading rapidly and widely -- especially through the internet or social media
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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