Emergent Thematics
I should have been reading it, but I’ve been listening to Anathem. And I’m nearly through. Though, it has left a few lingering questions in my brain that I’m starting to consider might not be answered — or rather, might be puzzles left for the reader. If I had the dead-tree version I could have flipped back to review, or seen the text with my own eyes, and this might have helped with subdue this feeling. Alas. In my efforts to seek a little more information on this, the latest tome by Neal Stephenson, I dug, and ultimately I came across, online, a comment by someone who claimed that it was — and I’m paraphrasing here — like reading a fictionalized version of Gödel, Escher, [...]