Understand, as in making an effort to entertain his word-based spasms as more than just skippable edgery
Has less to do with reading comprehension and experience and more to do with a willingness to just dive in and hallucinate along with him, and find horribly beautiful parallels to current life and society in the haze (which I firmly believe even a first time reader can do, and does, even if just on a basic level, and even if they don't realize it)
Even someone who very rarely reads can get a lot out of Gibson. They don't need to know how to read rul gud, they just need to have been to a city at least once in their life
Can you dig the rebop, pops?
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