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  <title>The Pains</title>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the most elegant prose, but as always a compelling narrative from Sundman. This one is pretty geek heavy with flavors of higher math, hypothetical future biology, and digital design. All of this coupled with religion. There is a small twist at the end that I love and makes me laugh. In fact, his whole religion concept makes me laugh -- priests walking around with nooses around their necks, a Christ figure that's actually a severed head, and the turnover of Christ figures. Religion mixed with politics and power...pretty sounds like status quo to me.]]></body>
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