The Body Was Meat
For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.
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Context: Case after his nervous system has been damaged so he can no longer jack into cyberspace.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Part One: Chiba City Blues, Chapter 1