is fascinating and I I think we'll come back to this notion of life experiences and life explorers uh as we go ahead in the conversation. But I also wanted to touch on the fact that you you made references to digital public infrastructure. you spoke about the fact that there are certain types of systems that make this possible, right? I mean, for something like PM Kissan to happen, number ofpieces had to fall into place, not just the AI that was used, uh, communication medium and so on. And talking about infrastructure, you extend that concept. You talk about shared digitalized
oh yeah well don't worry about about that um I think that the popular culture references and the ordinariness of the lives and the peopleum were things that hadn't appeared quite
So I spent a lot of time going and looking at old YouTube videos of "The Wonder Years" or all the pop culture references to the suburbs in our culture, because they're everywhere.And one of the interesting things I found was that it's kind of common now to take potshots at suburbia.
the divine council in the midst of the gods he holds judgment well it's pretty straightforward and there are a lot of references to the divine council and that's the divine council is an idea that you see in the Middle East before Israel it was just it was just a commonthing there's a kind of weigh station in the evolution of monotheism between polytheism and monotheism scholars call
I remember reading in Steinbeck. His references in Grapes of Wrath, his references to the mechanization of agriculture and those passages where he describes the machine as tearing people from the land and separating them from the land.
lot of Latin X people default toe white or they default other right, and there's rumors I have to get have to get references on this. But the rumor is that if you check other in the census in the United States, you're defaulted toe white and the racial category. So this is complex. For someone like Griselda and I identify as black, I check black, but what about the millions of others in this country that do not identify as black? But
And I think that's why the story is so brilliant, in that it sort of sets the stage for all the stories seeing references to you in the press.
There are two things you need to know because this is not quite at the beginning of the book. It references the lung disease which I was diagnosed with in the course of working as a contractor at the UN and undergoing all the processes for becoming a staffer, and it also references my bid for that job, which was a bid for financial and professional security.
This pitch here to the right was one of those-- we call them Bugs Bunny pitches in baseball. It references the old "Bugs Bunny" cartoon when you had crazy pitches. Now, this is real data.
People specifically like Howard Backen, who's a renowned architect in the area-- the Valley started to create this more singular architectural style that had references to the Valley's agrarian past, had a very minimalist aesthetic, it was something that is now a Napa Valley architectural style.
There's another reference of Fermat's Last Theorem in "Tree House of Horror VI." "Treehouse of Horror VI" also has references to Cartesian coordinates, has references to p versus np, that great unsolved problem. It has references to Euler's equation again, has references to the Utah teapot.
And that's what gives humor its power. It references so many things-- Americana, the sense of the past.
So really he's never going to know what he should leave or give a kid until he gets to the house, sees what the parents have left, and sorta cross references that sample with the desired wish list. Umm, now, if -- if you imagine him bringing a bag of -- of finished toys, he would then have to basically have -- you know, if a kid has
Rather than telling stories of yellow flowers raining down from the sky, McOndo literature was devoted to exploring gritty, modern-day realism with pop culture references and hallmarks of the modern urban experience. Even the name, McOndo, is a pun on García Márquez’s legendary Macondo, the setting of “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
And honestly, it always has. a lot of these references .
to other benchmarks and references that are happening in other places in the world, especially places and benchmarks that are, let's say, internationally
all the references to hunting and busybodying and dancing, for example.
I get the references .
What are your references and things like that?
I can give you references .
So "Matchmaker" references fire.
Any song that references her-- my daughter is a huge fan of.
and you mentioned the references to various bits of research throughout.
most particularly with its references to the Lost Land of Carcosa, originally to be found in Robert W Chambers book, the King in Yellow,
You get references to rules that never-- Characters like the Mystic.
They understand all these references .
So all my references are historical.
but the historical references you might be making from your memory.
And it references persons in Article VI.
And it references love to the love of-- I love you much more than pirates, and Halloween, and Christmas, and diggers, and dinosaurs,
And people are making references to metal fences.
I got references that said it had been taken out of storage in 1966 and put in this garden.
things you saw references to uh in some ways and in in that we've we've passed
and uses and cultural references from around the world.
There are references that you would have to read the kind of whole story together.
And we know from references that he himself made and contemporaries made that Aristotle also wrote books about plants, although sadly, none of those
The ice references don't get old.
because you have more references .
And you gave references to switching every five minutes or so.
And although I sprinkled references to the floggings in the book prior, I don't focus intensely on it until the last night of his life.
So again, this is a really mathematical in-joke in "The Simpsons." Now, who's putting these jokes in there? Who's making these references ? Well, that particular reference was probably made by this chap here.
They joined "The Simpsons" They worked on that very first episode of "The Simpsons" and even in that very first episode you get mathematics, you get mathematical references . But the interesting thing is that, if you're looking at "The Simpsons," and if you look at it now and you spot a mathematical reference -- now, you know,
has references to p versus np, that great unsolved problem. It has references to Euler's equation again, has references to the Utah teapot. It has stuff in ASCII.
Did you find any references about how he wanted to be perceived in terms of his legacy?
And that's what gives humor its power. There's art history references .
There are two references to atheism in a 90 minute show.
We also came across references to civilians sometimes being killed by a particular outfit called Task Force 3-7-2.
fatwas the references remarkably uniform to the extent that they read like some had cribed from the
And the references are much more restricted. You never find any high cultural references or rarely there. I mean if you read the American newspapers,
Is it that it only references peer reviewed literature.