Snow crash is a virus that is very similar to some like mythical virus from ancient Sumeria. There are large swaths of this book that are just hero talking to the librarian AI about ancient Sumerian culture and language. It makes a little bit of a metaphorical and thematic leap to what it means to create in a digital space the way that language can create in the real world. Andrew: I don't know if you've have you like how much do you know about linguistics Andrew not like a time like you know who no mchompsky is sort of yeah okay so there's like two viewpoints on you like how your brain deals with language  and one