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Not that I don’t appreciate a good William Gibson reference, but is there a specific aspect that makes this a reference to Neuromancer?

The idiom is common and predates Neuromancer:

> "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" is a number one country music single for The Davis Sisters in 1953.

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I guess there really isn't anything about it that makes it a reference to Neuromancer. It's just my own personal death-of-the-author interpretation; I've only seen the idiom in Neuromancer. But apparently, as you said, it is common and predates Neuromancer.

I really appreciate the country love-song context; it is both interesting and amusing.

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