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Ep 209 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

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The Metaverse: A Novel About Language and the Metaverse

The dialogue rings a little weird like in that sushi K fight sequence that I was telling you about like Raven starts throwing spears at people and hero literally says to some guy named squeaky. There's some of that going on where the satire is either trying too hard or not trying hard enough from a style perspective. The reason that you come back to this book is because it makes you think through what language actually means as well as how ideas spread when I told you about riffing on memes  that's not not related in a weird way if only because it's like how you pass around any sort of intellectual idea"

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