Day: April 21, 2004
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Neal Stephenson: “Every culture can be kind of defined by what they drink in order to avoid dying of diarrhea.”
Salon has a wide-ranging interview with author Neal Stephenson. The emphasis is on his most recent work, The Baroque Cycle. I’m reading The Confusion, the second volume in the trilogy (my notes on Quicksilver, the first volume). A few quotes from the interview. On the 17th century version of establishing authorship in the science realm:…