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Ep 324: Akshaya Mukul and the Life of Agyeya
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
The Limits of Literature
I wonder about, you know, whether in the way that we think about literature and writing and all of these forms, that we are trapped in a mindset that evolved in a previous time. Why is a book a certain number of pages and there's a minimum and a maximum? And the reason for that is a constraint and it's a printing constraint. Keep paper, you wait. This is how many you can put together. From that artificial constraint has evolved a convention of the length of the book. All of these conventions have come out of physical restraints, which in a sense, in different fields have been vanishing in different ways, you know.
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