That is very valid subtext but I also believe Stephen King was wigging out detoxing from booze and blow with his family in CO and remember some Bradbury he read. Both can be true. King was so good he doesn't remember writing Cujo like Bowie doesn't remember recording Station to Station
Eyes Wide Shut is visually captivating string theory goodness - you can lose your mind over the rainbow right quick - but also I think Arthur Schnitzler wanted a little taste of that hot secret pre-WWI Vienna action that he'd never get (I'm all about that fallacy of authorial intent).
From the original mathematics paper (open access):
in the long-running television show The Simpsons, the industrialist Charles Montgomery Burns attempted this with multiple monkeys chained to typewriters but gave up when the best one produced was the near-Dickensian “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times”.
new HN game: predict which order the archive.is link or pedantry comes in. if you get the order right, you get one point. if you get sucked into a pedantic argument, you lose
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