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Anathem

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Anathem	comment	Anathem is a novel by Neal Stephenson about a world where monastic orders called "maths" isolate themselves from the rest of the world to study science, mathematics, and philosophy. When members of one of these maths make a surprising discovery, it's up to them to re-enter the "sæcular world" and use their skills to investigate and deal with the potentially global ramifications.note Or, as Stevenson himself described the book, it's "[A] universe where all of the Blue-state, book reading people have been herded into monastic compounds, and they hang out together and be nerds. And they're surrounded by a bigger civilization that mostly doesn’t care about them. And the book gets into how can those two groups work together."Like many of Neal Stephenson's other books he Shows His Work with several appendices of Socratic dialogues and at least a cursory understanding of geometry and platonic philosophy being helpful. Like Cryptonomicon, the book isn't really about the plot; just as Cryptonomicon was really about cryptology and The Baroque Cycle was really about modern economics, Anathem is really about Platonic epistemology. Applied and weaponized Platonic epistemology.
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Anathem / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Anathem / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: The aliens can marginally breathe Arbran air and cannot digest the food, because they are from other universes where the atoms are shaped a little differently, making them all chemically incompatible with one another.
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Anathem / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Anathem / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: Justified and Averted. Avouts are required to publicly register their liasons, so as to avoid gossip in the maths. However, before Fraa Erasmas and Suur Ala could register their liason, Ala was evoked.
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Anathem / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Anathem / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The glossary and the appendices.
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Anathem / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Anathem / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: It's not that he's lying, it's just that the records on hand prove him wrong...
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Anathem / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Anathem / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Rodding. Very simple. Drop a large dense rod from orbit. Works really well if you aim at a dormant volcano. Boom. Repeat.
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Anathem / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Anathem / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Fraa Erasmas has no idea that Suur Ala is into him until she grows visibly despondent at his obliviousness. However, knowing Ala, she might very well have manipulated that whole situation just to sidestep his Belligerent Sexual Tension.
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Anathem / int_3298415e	type	Magic from Technology
Anathem / int_3298415e	comment	Magic from Technology: Many legends developed around the Incanters, who were supposedly able to alter reality by chanting. However, many clues imply that their power is actually a praxis the Millenarians developed. Fraa Erasmas saw (sort of...) Fraa Jad using what was probably the actual device, which looked like a fancy jeejah. It does appear that chanting is how Fraa Jad controlled it, which explains how the legend of the Incanters arose.
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Anathem / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Anathem / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The calendar sets the year 0 at the Reconstitution, which occurred shortly after the Terrible Events, a near-extinction level nuclear/nanotechnological war. This was more than 3500 years ago. See also Scavenger World.
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Anathem / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Anathem / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Jules speaks some, and the others don't understand him, going as far as calling rockets "monyafeeks" after misunderstanding his outburst upon seeing one.
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Anathem / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Anathem / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Fraa Lodoghir suggests that all the events of the book occurred because the Thousanders wanted to end the subjugation of the mathic world by the sæcular, and so, right before the Third Sack, they used their Incanting praxis to call alien beings from various parallel universes to come to Arbre and create the existential crisis that enabled this to happen. However, given the way the Thousanders are able to observe and manipulate different Narratives, for them it might have been a Xanatos Gambit.
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Anathem / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Anathem / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Jules' Gratuitous French, justified as Erasmas has never heard French before and is just taking wild guesses as to the spelling.
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Anathem / int_4e43e4e6	type	Engaging Conversation
Anathem / int_4e43e4e6	comment	Engaging Conversation: More like an Engaging Email. Fraa Erasmas proposes to spend the rest of his life with Suur Ala, though their romantic relationship up to that point had been to make out once.
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Anathem / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Anathem / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "'In my world,' said Zh’vaern, 'we call it a Faraday cage.'"
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Anathem / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Anathem / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: We are introduced to Erasmas as he is serving as "amanuensis" (recorder, or maybe witness) for a conversation between Fraa Orolo and an artisan from outside. The end has him acting as amanuensis again, in a very different context.
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Anathem / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Anathem / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: At 937 pages, it used to be the picture on that page for a reason.
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Anathem / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Anathem / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The ancient city-states Baz and Ethras are clearly counterparts to ancient Rome and Athens, although they are mostly relevant to the narrative as the source of the Bazian Orthodox (Roman Catholic) church and as the home of Thelenes (Socrates) and Protas (Plato). Due to the metaphysics of the setting, a Justified Trope.
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Anathem / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Anathem / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Many technologies and cultural references are renamed — for instance, cell phones are "jeejahs", Arbre's version of the net is called the "ret" (starting from "reticule" instead of "network"), scientists are called "theors" and martial arts are called "vale-lore" or "vlor". Quite thoroughly justified, seeing as Arbre is within a chain of Hylaean Theoric Worlds. These are similar to one another by definition, and one of them contains Earth, with rabbits and Socrates and Occam's Razor, as opposed to smeerps and Thelenes and Gardan's Steelyard.
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Anathem / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Anathem / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Fraa Jad and, it is hinted, at least some of the Thousanders of the Three Inviolate maths, due to a praxis (read: technology) that allows them to be able to live around their stores of nuclear waste. Involves quantum immortality.
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Anathem / int_5cc9ae07	type	Rejection Ritual
Anathem / int_5cc9ae07	comment	Rejection Ritual: The eponymous anathem ritual is performed when avout leave their order.
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Anathem / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Anathem / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Erasmas is forced to partake in a public interview much like a trial to explain and defend his actions. His interlocutor is heavily against him and poses all of his questions to in an effort to make Erasmas look foolish. Erasmas immediately realizes that he'll have to draw on all his powers of argumentation to get out of the interview unscathed.
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Anathem / int_62f20fd6	type	A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...
Anathem / int_62f20fd6	comment	A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...: at first; it later turns out to be The Multiverse, with one of the other dimensions very clearly specified to be near-future Earth.
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Anathem / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Anathem / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Discussed, deconstructed, and averted. The Arbran religions stem from the same legendary event that also inspired the avout. Information from farther up the Wick connecting all of the Hylaean Theoric Worlds was interpreted in two seemingly incompatible ways — a religious experience and the inspiration behind mathematics. Most of the antipathy between the avout and the Deolators (conventionally religious people) derives from the lack of contact the two worlds have with one another, but some avout (such as Erasmas, Arsibalt, and the mathic order Zh'vaern is pretending to represent at the convox) think the whole thing is overplayed even before the events of the story and Erasmas goes out of his way to treat the Deolators he deals with with courtesy and respect. As the events of the story play out the two sides interact with each other more; Deolators from several different factions assist Erasmas and his party more than once and after dealing with the existential crisis threatening all of them the two sides appear to be on much better terms by the end of the story.
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Anathem / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Anathem / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Cord is a mechanic.
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Anathem / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
Anathem / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: Earlier chapters of the book are discovered by concent officials at one point in the story, and they directly quote parts of the story as evidence in a hearing, which, of course, is written down in the book...
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Anathem / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
Anathem / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: Played with and justified. Arbre has been at a relatively high level of technological development (on and off) for at least four thousand years. Background events suggest that the natural resources of the planet are almost completely depleted. The cars are powered by a processed fuel that originates in genetically engineered trees, and strip-mining abandoned cities for raw materials is a major industry. Several key pieces of high technology are built from designs that are hundreds or thousands of years old. This includes the space suits.
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Anathem / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Anathem / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: (see page quote). Works until both sides break out the femtotechnology, planet burners, and everything killers.
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Anathem / int_7ef08424	type	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything
Anathem / int_7ef08424	comment	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything: Orolo's exposition on "Saunt Grod's Machines" suggests that Saunt Grod found a way to use quantum effects to realize a nondeterministic TMnote no, what's called a "quantum circuit" or "quantum Turing machine" by Real Life academics is (probably) not this powerful, with NP and QBP generally thought, albeit not proven, to each contain sets not in the other; Jad's farewell message to Erasmas all but confirms that millenarians have access to this application.
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Anathem / int_83d2b3f2	type	Our Humans Are Different
Anathem / int_83d2b3f2	comment	Our Humans Are Different: While it's not clear exactly what physical features distinguish the "humans" of Arbre from the "humans" of Earth — there's a mention of cheekbones — it's enough that both can tell the difference at a glance.
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Anathem / int_8d12bb8d	type	Doomsday Device
Anathem / int_8d12bb8d	comment	Doomsday Device: Everything Killers are pill-sized neutron bombs that kill everything within a mile and can be placed just about anywhere. The World Burner is also Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Anathem / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Anathem / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: Erasmas, Lio, and Tulia are bastardized from the real-world names Erasmus, Leo, and Talia.
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Anathem / int_a1dfb30e	type	Lost Superweapon
Anathem / int_a1dfb30e	comment	Lost Superweapon: World Burner and Everything Killers, oh and the ability to manipulate the multiverse with nothing more than a little chanting.
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Anathem / int_a5c29c9c	type	Persecuted Intellectuals
Anathem / int_a5c29c9c	comment	Persecuted Intellectuals: Mathematicians (called "Avout") are confined to monasteries (called "Maths"), and only allowed contact with the outside world once per year, decade, century or millennium. On three occasions the Maths were invaded because the Avout invented technologies considered too dangerous ("new matter", genetic engineering, and magic).
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Anathem / int_a96b8b63	type	Space Marine
Anathem / int_a96b8b63	comment	Space Marine: What Erasmas and his companions in Cell 317 become. Although their boarding action of the alien ship is extremely improvised, the sæcular authorities are very impressed that 'the guys with the bolts and chords' were the ones to come through where the actual military forces of Arbre could not. As a result the mathic world is fully integrated into the political power structure of Arbre, losing its isolation but at the same time gaining greater acceptance.
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Anathem / int_a9b3c8ea	type	Orion Drive
Anathem / int_a9b3c8ea	comment	Orion Drive: a spacecraft that travels between different dimensions and uses an Orion-style propulsion system. This ship, the Daban Urnud, is discovered by observing the nuclear explosions used to modify its orbit.
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Anathem / int_a9ea3c3c	type	Warrior Monk
Anathem / int_a9ea3c3c	comment	Warrior Monk: The avout of the Ringing Vale study athletics and martial arts, which is consequently called "vale lore" or "vlor." They study it with a scientific bent rather than a religious one. Avout outside of the vale, such as Lio, also study vlor.
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Anathem / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Anathem / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The Valers avert this in Mahsht. Bonus points for doing it while actually wearing red shirts.
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Anathem / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Anathem / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: For Erasmas, who transitions from Fraa Orolo's fid (student) to his successor, learning important lessons about the sæcular world and about the formerly untouchable Ita caste along the way.
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Anathem / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Anathem / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Erasmas, Orolo, Arsibalt, and Jules Verne, who is descended from our Earth.
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Anathem / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Anathem / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Fraa Lio and all the avout of the Ringing Vale. In fact, all of Erasmas' group are big, muscular guys who were selected for the heavy labor of winding the clock.
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Anathem / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Anathem / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Plotwise, the book is fairly straightforward, until Erasmas and Fraa Jad board the alien spaceship, at which point multiple timelines/universes get involved and it's anyone's guess what the hell is going on. It gets better by the conclusion, though.
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Anathem / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Anathem / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: A common punishment is to have avout memorize chapters in "The Book." Each chapter is more challenging than the last. While one chapter is simply memorizing the numbers in Pi, others are subtly wrong in their internal logic (nursery rhymes that don't quite rhyme correctly, for example), making them difficult and taxing to memorize. Legend says only three people ever completed the twelfth chapter, and they all ended up completely insane. The punishment is purely optional, however. Avout can choose to simply leave the mathic world instead of submit to punishment.
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Anathem / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Anathem / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the Iconographies the sæcular world sometimes associates with the avouts invokes Star Trek. Another Iconography involves Superman.
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Anathem / int_d4efe0d	type	Character Narrator
Anathem / int_d4efe0d	comment	Character Narrator: Anathem is written down by its main character and narrator, Fraa Erasmas.
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Anathem / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Anathem / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": With living creatures, as Stephenson says in the introduction that he has, for instance, chosen to refer to Arbran vegetables which are similar but not identical to carrots simply as "carrots."
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Anathem / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Anathem / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The book is written by its protagonist/narrator in Orth; it's just presented to us in English for our benefit. Nearly all dialogue is actually in Orth, with some small parts in Fluccish, though both languages are presented to us in English. The only actual Orth we get to see consists of character/place names. Also, when one character who speaks French shows up, his French is written in a Funetik Aksent, as the narrator has no idea how French is supposed to be spelled.
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Anathem / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Anathem / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Poor Fraa Lodoghir, who exists for the sole purpose of asking stupid questions on behalf of the Procian school of thought. Perhaps the first recorded instance of a Strawman Quantum Theorist. Although his final conversation with Erasmas suggests this was Obfuscating Stupidity and he knew precisely what Fraa Jad was capable of and did.
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Anathem / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Anathem / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: The people on the ship look human, but slightly different in a way that Erasmas can't quite describe. This is because they're humans from the universe next door
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Anathem / int_f792bc7b	type	Dying Dream
Anathem / int_f792bc7b	comment	Dying Dream: Weaponized by Fraa Jad to deliver a warning/threat to the Geometers.
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