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Dickens: The Map
- histories 2y agoI too, like the author, read (almost) everything Dickens wrote a couple of years ago. Definitely the best of times.
- kreyenborgi 2y agoCurrently reading the “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, I recently arrived at the passages concerning Fleet Prison (pray, no spoilers!), so I wondered who the present inmates of said confines are. They seem to be none other than PayPal! And there's a "Pickwick Coffee Club" just round the corner =D
- bryanrasmussen 2y ago>who the present inmates of said confines are. They seem to be none other than PayPal! Someone should investigate if that is by intention!
- aaronax 2y agoA similar analysis for The Baroque Cycle would be cool (for undefined reasons...just in a Surprised by Joy sense I suppose). I am 2/3 through Quicksilver. It looks like the used copy of The Confusion that I ordered is missing the maps. I guess they are available on the map maker's website [0]. I recall that some digital map version of the track of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was interesting when I was reading that a while back. I think a super-interesting project of similar concept would be to fully 3D model the apartment building from Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Knuth: "perhaps the greatest 20th century novel" [1]). Hundreds or thousands of architectural and furnishing details are described in exquisite detail, of maybe 20 apartments across 6 or 7 floors. My apologies for any gaffs in this idea--I only made it about 1/3 of the way through the book mostly because of busy life. [0] https://baroque-cycle.com/ https://baroque-cycle.com/ [1] https://cs.stanford.edu/content/contacting-donald-knuth/retd.html https://cs.stanford.edu/content/contacting-donald-knuth/retd...
- jll29 2y agoPlacing Literature https://placingliterature.wordpress.com/ https://placingliterature.wordpress.com/