'The textual universe thus obtained [...] is a uniform and permanent production of matter.' Sarduy on neobaroque as literary cosmological expansion (Barroco tr. A Verdolini)

Comenius, The Labyrinth of the World, mogging the grammarians

'All the broad philosophical and religious themes [...] that become imbricated in the meditative practice of The Apple in the Dark can be reduced to a single problem, one that is latent in the hero's journey and the trajectory of the narrative itself, and which gives this novel

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“the program is an abstract [general] symbol manipulator, which can be turned into a concrete [specialised] one by supplying a computer to it. After all, it is no longer the purpose of programs to instruct our machines [but] the purpose of machines to execute our programs.”

"...[G]ongzhi (公知, 'public intellectual') gradually began to take on a derogatory meaning, referring to sanctimonious individuals of little competence who ubiquitously and chaotically comment on public affairs; the term is generally applied to Internet celebrities."