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- {"content": "Don\u2019t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish. If you want to woo the muse of the odd, don\u2019t read Shakespeare. Read Webster\u2019s revenge plays. Don\u2019t read Homer and Aristotle. Read Herodotus where he\u2019s off talking about Egyptian women having public sex with goats. If you want to read about myth don\u2019t read Joseph Campbell, read about convulsive religion, read about voodoo and the Millerites and the Munster Anabaptists. There are hundreds of years of extremities, there are vast legacies of mutants. There have always been geeks. There will always be geeks. Become the apotheosis of geek. Learn who your spiritual ancestors were. You didn\u2019t come here from nowhere. There are reasons why you\u2019re here. Learn those reasons. Learn about the stuff that was buried because it was too experimental or embarrassing or inexplicable.", "id": "959b1d3e-2660-4e5f-b27c-e06c5d51b783", "author": "Bruce Sterling"}
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