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The reading of difficult books, a guide to the bored (2023)
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- 082349872349872 3y ago> It’s also important to remember that quite a lot of the rest of the time, the author might be joking. Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_number which has generated much serious discussion, eg: https://www.jstor.org/stable/592627?seq=10 https://www.jstor.org/stable/592627?seq=10 but I think there is textual evidence the author was joking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391