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There's a great passage in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon about the problems of moving pallets of gold that are sitting undefended in the middle of the jungle.

• dfc 15y ago
  I dont remember the passage. Care to elaborate or give a page reference?
  • shabble 15y ago
    Chapter 59, towards the end, there's a Q&A formatted section. Snippet is http://pastebin.com/xNDkDNe8 http://pastebin.com/xNDkDNe8 (hopefully short enough to be fair use)
    • dfc 15y ago
      Did you type that in by hand? THanks a lot..
      • shabble 15y ago
        No, I pulled it out of a pdf version I have. My physical copy is at the bottom of a box in one of the cupboards somewhere.
  • wmf 15y ago
    Chapter XLI, near p. 510. http://books.google.com/books?id=FUha9wJrSXMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cryptonomicon&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=KaVWTqy0BuStsAK_9IDGDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=1&ved=0CD0QuwUwAA#v=snippet&q=jungle%20gold&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=FUha9wJrSXMC&printsec=f...