Michael Knowles
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Great to be here with you.
So, this book.
One, thank you for picking a short book.
Neil Ferguson had me do War and Peace.
It kept me up many nights.
Marvelous book, like all Russian literature.
Kind of difficult at times to follow.
Weird names and structures.
What's the book about?
So, the protagonist.
D-503.
He is building the integral.
This is going to bring the dystopia of the world state, which is demarcated by a green wall, to the entire cosmos.
And it's going to enslave, basically, the whole cosmos, but it will be for their own happiness.
He has these tickets for weird sex stuff.
Basically, all sex is regulated by the state.
And one of the rules is, any of the numbers, that is to say the people,
have the right to have sex with anyone, really, that they want.
Uh, but it's all heavily regulated.
And so he's got this girlfriend who's really sweet and kind of chubby and he seems to like her, but he's not madly in love with her.