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"Why had he done it?" - I hope the italics imply an explanation; because as it stands, a player of games so easily tricked, the plot is deeply implausible.
— Nov 11, 2019 01:33PM
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Adrian Buck
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"He solved the problem by shuffling the library, sorting every word in it into alphabetical order and every pixel into order of colour, shade and intensity." - a vulnerability of digital media.
— Dec 01, 2019 01:24AM
Adrian Buck
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'...but it had been briefed that when Culture people didn't speak Marain for a long time and did speak another language, they were liable to change..." - linguistic determinism. I often feel closer to non-English speaking Europeans Europeans than say Americans. But then again, how Hungarian am I now?
— Dec 01, 2019 01:21AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 209 of 309
I was wondering where the writer of the The Wasp Factory was. Now I've found him, I feel slightly nauseous.
— Nov 30, 2019 05:59AM
Adrian Buck
is on page 148 of 309
"But the moves could become a language, and Gurgeh thought he could speak the language now, well enough (tellingly) to lie in it..." - inspiration for Embassytown?
— Nov 30, 2019 05:56AM
