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kleinbl00  ·  3140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: April 23rd: What are you reading this week?

And I have a more-than-passing familiarity with all of it, and it felt like name-checking to me. I didn't feel like Stephenson wanted me to know these people, I felt like Stephenson was playing Bingo with how many names he could get into it.