Lenz on cult lore and the Concavity
believed that some sort of perfect piece of digito-holographic porn was circulating somewhere in the form of a bootleg Write-Protect-notched software diskette and devoted their cultic lives to snuffling around trying to get hold of the virtual kamasupra diskette
Context
The samizdat as low-rent legend — the pleasure-death myth trickled down to Delaware cult gossip. Lenz's patter includes a cult of Delawareans who believe a "perfect piece of digito-holographic porn" is out there on a bootleg diskette and devote their lives to snuffling after the "virtual kamasupra diskette," even though the VR porn they already watch causes eye-bleeds and impotence. It's the Entertainment's structure in a funhouse mirror: the rumored perfect pleasure-object, circulating unseen, sought by devotees who wreck themselves in the pursuit. The theme's grim universality shows in the debasement — the same legend that Marathe frames as pan-cultural myth (103) and Tine tracks as a national-security threat (107) also lives as seedy stoner folklore, the dream of a perfect fatal pleasure so pervasive it turns up at every altitude of the culture, from the Presidency to a cult mopping its eye-corners in dim Wilmington venues.