#345 – Culture Rover’s Unfamiliar Quotations

the digital humanities, circa 1965.

For now it was like walking among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe endless. Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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