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hermetic

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3. Nah, there will be much better titles for that

Sun Mar 10, 2019, 12:48 PM

Mar 2019

Instead it should make you think of Stephen Hawking, who incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time. Or Terry Pratchett and Discworld. It is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 10, 2019? [View all] hermetic Mar 2019 OP

'Turtles All the Way Down'...I thought a bio of Mitch McC CurtEastPoint Mar 2019 #1

Nah, there will be much better titles for that hermetic Mar 2019 #3

I really liked the book Cuthbert Allgood Mar 2019 #13

Karen Memory iamateacher Mar 2019 #2

That sounds interesting hermetic Mar 2019 #5

Elizabeth Bear is a great author, multiple Hugo Awards iamateacher Mar 2019 #15

Ah Thomas Covenant the Whiner exboyfil Mar 2019 #4

Yeah, hermetic Mar 2019 #6

I read the first six Covenant books exboyfil Mar 2019 #7

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Ohiya Mar 2019 #8

I've always enjoyed her writing hermetic Mar 2019 #9

I have always liked her. murielm99 Mar 2019 #10

Me too... Ohiya Mar 2019 #12

I have gone back to reading murielm99 Mar 2019 #11

Oh neat! hermetic Mar 2019 #17

Read Iron Lake first. murielm99 Mar 2019 #18

OK, thanks hermetic Mar 2019 #19

Green by Sam Graham-Felsen (Obama's blogger) Cuthbert Allgood Mar 2019 #14

Sounds like a good choice hermetic Mar 2019 #16

Just started The Real Michael Swann PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #20