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by websitejanitor 1913 days ago
I have read Anathem. It's math as occult magic riffing on harry potter.
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Pretty much anything can be dismissed with an adlib of the form "It's [boring subject] as [thing I don't like] riffing on [some other thing]." It never captures the nuance, or why X as Y riffing on Z might still be interesting or enlightening.