Diamond Age Drummers and other things

The idea of the Drummers is really complicated and I am not sure what exactly is going on. They sound like a very sick bunch of people that are acting out on their subconciouse desires or have no control over their id. He seemed to have no control over his impulses and/or sexual desire. Why would the nanosites effect him in this way? I do not understand the significance. I understand that they are transmitted from person to person through intercourse but why and how is the person "dreaming" through out this?
I did not like how the  book jumped ten years into the future at random. I wanted to see Nell grow up with the Primer more. I feel like I do not know her anymore. It was also strange to me how she was right around the same place in the Primer she was ten years ago collecting the keys that had been stolen and the final key. What else has she learned from the Primer in the time that was not talked about then? I remember she did backtrack to go back to the Dojo and learn more but for ten years? Highly doubt that. I thought she would be in a different story by now or something. I just do not like how quickly time has past and I feel I am left out of whatever happened to her during those ten years.
I am not sure what Nell is planning on doing with her life. I have not read up to the part she gets her fortune or whatever it is yet. I just do not see a place for her in the society she is in right now. She is not conforming or rebelling so what is the medium of that or outside of it? I found it quite funny that when she left she put on a shirt that said SHIT HAPPENS so she could blend in lol.

Awsome, Mysterious Ending

I really enjoyed the ending of this novel! Somethings confused me a little bit though. What actually happen to her father? Did he just become old and senile? I really thought that she should have killed him. He deserved to die a slow, horrible death. I expected Ash to jump up and bite him in the jugular or just tare him to pieces. I really liked how the ending really made this more of a sci-fi book to me. The Moon women visiting her was definately a fantasy scene in the book but it could be interpreted as just a dream. The dress and Ash's hair growing long was not too big of a deal to me. In the end though, she became a glowing, supernatural being. The blood really freaked me out and I was not completely sure of the meaning behind the blood that came out of her palm. When the blood flowed between her legs it made sense for obviouse reasons. It represented her loss of her virginity. Which reminds me it bothered me how out of no where the author goes into how in the future it is some kind of oracle because it took me away from what was going on in the present. I was also confused as to why she became two seperate people. The more beautiful one was the one that disapeared. I thought maybe she represented Lissar's anguish and shame for what had happened to her and she disapeared so Lissar could move on. Why was she the more beautiful figure though? I love this whole part of the book but there are so many things I am confused about and are very mysterious. I will definately have to read it again and try to make more sense of it. Hopefully in class today we will go over this a bit, but I know there will also be a lot of questions about " Laugh of the Medusa."