people ask me for reading recommendations for learning occulty shit and i always give them fantasy and science fiction novels tbh i trust induction from fiction for this way better than straight explication, the fictional metaphor has to at least work inside some world model
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and figuring it out is inherently a heavy lift induction task, straight explication tends rather strongly to conceal that and make people think they can just, like, internalize the words using the meanings they're used to assigning to them
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anyway, read Walter Jon Williams's ARISTOI and Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT and Greg Bear's BLOOD MUSIC and Neal Stephenson's SNOW CRASH and sure what the fuck the Illuminatus! trilogy
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Replying to @adrienneleigh
i couldn't say whether the Eco is good for learning anything, i came by it late so reading it was just this delightfully cozy exercise in "hahaha i have literally met all of these fucking people, what a bunch of jackasses, i miss them"
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Replying to @chaosprime @adrienneleigh
i don't know how Umberto Eco could have been at the parties where i'd say to the OTO guy "hey, Bill, tell me something not pertaining to my grade" and he'd give me the Master Mason word or whatever, but he clearly was
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haha, nah, not that fancy
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