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A pedant reads Mieville

posted by Zed on July 9 2002 20:17

So I've been reading Perdido Street Station and enjoying it a lot, but recently encountered something that threw me way out of the book. A character is riding on a train.

Gravity pulled her to the west as the train turned.

Gravity had nothing to do with it! Aie aie aaaiiiiiiieeee!

Frickin' philosophy majors.

(Mieville is pursuing a Ph.D. in International Relations on the Philosophy of International Law.) (And, as it happens, I have a B.S. in philosophy.)

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