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Also, O'Brien is the agent in 1984.

• Houshalter 13y ago
  Ya I was thinking about the scary irony of being interviewed by a man named O'Brien. But since I assumed it was real, I thought it was just a coincidence. And in hindsight, a lot of details of the story don't make sense, but that it could be fiction just didn't cross my mind.
  • Filligree 13y ago
    "I learned about PRISM two years ago". ;-) Now, if you read that in 2015, you might have a case.
• auxbuss 13y ago
  And Bloom is the protagonist of Ulysses. It's also Bloomsday today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
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  • anthuswilliams 13y ago
    I have not read Ulysses, so the story had me thinking about Bloom filters, data structures for which the likelihood of false positives increase as the dataset grows larger. I guess there is a certain kind of poetry in the coincidence.