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Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Al-Kindī’s technique, known as frequency analysis, shows that it is unnecessary to check each of the billions of potential keys. Instead, it is possible to reveal the contents of a scrambled message simply by analyzing the frequency of the characters in the ciphertext.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
the best stories to tell are the ones that have been told over and over again, and the stories of competitive mimesis and of deification followed by scapegoating are the oldest and best of all
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
unique way we turn the story.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.)
Hector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
What generates story is a chain of associations cleaved to a chain of consequence.
Steve Almond • Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
- The Pattern Level
Albert Rutherford • The Systems Thinker - Mental Models
seems far more appropriate to identify Textual Poachers as a transformative work,
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
low-level textuality of hashing accords with Hayles's conception of a "flexible chain of markers bound together by the arbitrary relations specified by the relevant codes."