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Spoiler, its mostly dirty limericks and and fart jokes…
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No, really:
But having all these works digitized, translates and searchable could be a treasure trove of firsthand accounts of life throughout history. Really cool.
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Yeah, I was patially joking. And yes, it will be neat to see those texts.
I got a tour of the rare book portion of a library and got to see things like a first edition of Copernicus’ book on the motion of the earth around the sun.
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Anyone?
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The one I remember is Silverberg’s Good News from the Vatican (which was 1971 and won a Nebula).
It would be awesome if the software could identify the handwriting of a particular scribe, and we could get to know (in a strange attenuated way) some of the people who handled these texts long ago.
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Too bad that you could jam the number of scholastically accessible information in the VSA could be jammed up a gnat’s ass and it’d look like a BB in a boxcar.
This is a very complicated sentence is very complicated.
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Nope. Miller’s “A Canticle for Liebowitz” is fantastic and worth a read. Blish’s “A Case of Conscience” is too pulpy in places, but pretty good nonetheless.
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Thanks for the recs. I enjoyed the Simak. Liebowitz was good too. I’ll have to check out Blish’s.
Needs more cowbell blockchain.
we prefer
“information that can dance on the head of a pin.”
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