Post #4362764
2026-08-03 08:31 UTC
They did three *different* tricks: "Didn't catch it? Here, let me do it again!" is a lie:
https://magiciansmag.com/3-cool-coin-disappearing-trick/
There's times when it makes sense to treat two outcomes as the same, even if they were produced by very different means. As a reader, my enjoyment of your novel is the same whether it was dictated, typed on an Underwood Noiseless, keyed into a word processor, or scratched out with a fountain pen:
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:31
There's plenty of routes that arrive at the same place, and if the destination is all that matters to you, it's fine to ignore the journey. But often, those end-points have subtle differences that are only revealed when things go wrong. If all you care about is how things work, chances are good that you're in for an unpleasant surprise when things *fail*. 3/