"You're travelling here in America now; don't you feel more cosmopolitan than when you were in Japan?"
"It's stressful for us insular spirits. But we have to get used to the way places get into nets. They don't respect the old borders."
"So you could end up working over here?"
"There aren't many job openings here in the spirit business."
"No more spirits of place here, I suppose?"
"You haven't been listening. There's still spirits of places, but the places and the spirits have gone mobile and dispersed. The job gets done by fewer spirits. Talk to the AOL spirit."
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001