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Axiom’s End: A Novel by Lindsay Ellis
Axiom’s End: A Novel by Lindsay Ellis
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(Anonymous)
2020-08-17 04:59 pm (UTC)
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What's with the title?
What axiom ends? Or how does it play as metaphor?
I read it as meaningless technical misappropriation. It grates, it grates.
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kedamono
2020-08-17 06:35 pm (UTC)
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It may have been an unfortunate title. The first thing I thought of was the last voyage of the Axiom from
WALL-E
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ba_munronoe
2020-08-17 07:23 pm (UTC)
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"a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true."
"There are no aliens hanging out at Area 51?" :)
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(Anonymous)
2020-08-19 10:36 pm (UTC)
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I guessed on the review, but I do not know.
Robert Carnegie
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goobergunch
2021-04-25 08:22 pm (UTC)
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It's revealed late in the novel that the aliens believed that bayl fcrpvrf jvgu n pregnva pbzzba trargvp yvarntr (juvpu uhznaf qb abg funer) pna orpbzr vagryyvtrag.
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(Anonymous) 2020-08-17 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)What axiom ends? Or how does it play as metaphor?
I read it as meaningless technical misappropriation. It grates, it grates.
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"There are no aliens hanging out at Area 51?" :)
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(Anonymous) 2020-08-19 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)Robert Carnegie
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