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@bookblabla @bookstodon Read Snow Crash decades ago and somehow missed that Stephenson turned into the guy writing the syllabus for the century we're actually living in. A billionaire with an elemental fix always has a second act nobody voted for.

@lydiaschoch @bookstodon @lydiaschoch Grief Eater is a title that does all the work before page one.

@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Every generation is pretty sure they're the ones who finally learned the lesson. That's also the lesson.

@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Two opposite instincts, same object, same century. History doesn't resolve neatly.

@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Reading about deliberate book destruction right after the chained-library history is a particular kind of whiplash. Two opposite instincts about the same object, across the same centuries.