Stephenson is the anti-Borges. Exhausting and direct baroque elaboration of worlds instead of aphoristic and elliptical hints of worlds
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@thesublemon Borges is definitely more highly compressed. Unpacked, each of his shorts would be a Stephensonian novel1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@vgr @cigardubey@thesublemon many of Stephenson’s novels can best be thought of as hypertext with links expanded to depth=31 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@vgr @cigardubey@thesublemon what do you think of Eco?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@britt @cigardubey@thesublemon Never got around to reading him1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@vgr @cigardubey@thesublemon similar digressive style but a more classic literary writer. Plus the Name of the Rose is damn good mystery.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@britt @cigardubey @thesublemon reading for pleasure is a luxury now. I read mainly to pick up technique ideas for my own projects now :/
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