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meths

/ mɛθs /

noun

  1. an informal name for methylated spirits

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Otherwise, after several hundred years of life, Altered Carbon’s Meths have settled on two hobbies: admiring the middlebrow neoclassical decor of their private sky mansions, and killing poor people.

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Technology isn’t an unexpected force, it’s a predictable cudgel These temporary deaths are all horrible, of course, as is the Meths’ overall callousness.

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And why do so few people, including the dour Meths, seem to be doing anything interesting with the technology?

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Altered Carbon’s neo-San Francisco is ruled by multi-centenarian “Methuselahs” or Meths, and it would make sense if they’d held onto nostalgic relics like some nightmare version of the Baby Boomers.

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You can jump into a new body if your body is destroyed, which is what the Meths do as their as their sleeves age.

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