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Conarm t1_ix1hogm wrote

Reply to comment by Craygor in [OC] Inspired by movie barcodes, I made some emotional barcodes for books by Campbell_MG

Purple should be erronious rope details and outdated whale zoology

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Colalbsmi t1_ix1inz7 wrote

It was outdated when he wrote it, I loved when he said scientists are wrong about whales being mammals.

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fallllingman t1_ix20g2i wrote

And it doesn’t make the book any the lesser. In fact it does the opposite, because the book is, in part, about the unknowability of things.

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Colalbsmi t1_ix2drgp wrote

I only enjoyed it more for the author’s weird tangents

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fallllingman t1_ix2e4on wrote

Yes. Beyond its reputation as a literary masterpiece it’s just such a peculiar and odd and funny book

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