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File:Levity's Rainbow.jpg|link=Levity's Rainbow|'''''[[Levity's Rainbow]]''''' is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian. | File:Levity's Rainbow.jpg|link=Levity's Rainbow|'''''[[Levity's Rainbow]]''''' is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian. | ||
File:Experimental_Methods_in_Ichthyological_Morphogenesis_Research.jpg|link=Experimental Methods in Morphogenesis Research|"'''[[Experimental Methods in Morphogenesis Research]]'''" is a monograph by ichthyologist and alleged time-traveler H.G. Whales. | |||
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* [[Experimental Methods in Morphogenesis Research]] | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | * [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | ||
Revision as of 09:33, 7 November 2021
Call me HTML is the iconic opening sentence of the novel Moby-Web by Hermann Melville 1.1.
Call me HTML. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no bitcoin in my blockchain, and nothing particular to interest me at work, I thought I would surf the web a little and see the networky part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the math; whenever it is a buggy drizzly November in my code; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before porn websites, and bringing up the rear of every Agile scrum I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically debugging people’s software — then, I account it high time to write Typescript as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the web. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the Internet with me.
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![Moby-Pink; or, The Girl is an 1851 novel featuring the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Orchid, for revenge on Moby Pink, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's penis at the [REDACTED].](/w/images/thumb/0/03/Moby-Pink.jpg/83px-Moby-Pink.jpg)
Moby-Pink; or, The Girl is an 1851 novel featuring the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Orchid, for revenge on Moby Pink, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's penis at the [REDACTED].
Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian.
"Experimental Methods in Morphogenesis Research" is a monograph by ichthyologist and alleged time-traveler H.G. Whales.
Fiction cross-reference
- Experimental Methods in Morphogenesis Research
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Levity's Rainbow
- Moby-Pink
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Post @ Twitter (15 October 2021)