[HN Gopher] Dickens: The Map
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       Dickens: The Map
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2024-09-01 15:05 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | kreyenborgi wrote:
       | Currently 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 wrote:
         | >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 wrote:
       | A 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.
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       | [0] https://baroque-cycle.com/ [1]
       | https://cs.stanford.edu/content/contacting-donald-knuth/retd...
        
       | jll29 wrote:
       | Placing Literature https://placingliterature.wordpress.com/
        
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