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I’m fascinated by normalcy glitching so much a glitchy experience is the norm and it takes cunning exception handling to ensure a net default experience for yourself. And pre-emptying glitching as opposed to fixing them after is 100x as hard. SNAFU has now become SNAGU.
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Reminds me of “The Man Who Was Thursday” ch. 1. “Glitch” is unavoidably present here, as is the central question of whether glitch or not-glitch is either the boring/normal thing or the exciting/exceptional thing
“The poet delights in disorder only. If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway.”

“So it is,” said Mr. Syme…”
“Nonsense!…Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. ...”
“It is you who are unpoetical,” replied the poet Syme. “…The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? …"
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