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The organist/math teacher sat down with a few loose pipes, a pencil, and paper, and helped Lawrence figure out why. When Lawrence understood, it was as if the m
by hprotagonist 2y ago
The organist/math teacher sat down with a few loose pipes, a pencil, and paper, and helped Lawrence figure out why. When Lawrence understood, it was as if the math teacher had suddenly played the good part of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor on a pipe organ the size of the Spiral Nebula in Andromeda the part where Uncle Johann dissects the architecture of the Universe in one merciless descending ever mutating chord, as if his foot is thrusting through skidding layers of garbage until it finally strikes bedrock.
- KineticLensman 2y agoCryptonomicon, in case people were wondering. The part where Lawrence figures out computation while listening to an organ performance is (to me) one of the best bits of Stephenson's entire written output. [Edit] hprotagonist. Very apt.