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In our post apocalyptic future scholars will be using their quills to translate archives of these

Imagine tomes of programming lore, dutifully transcribed by rooms of silent scribes, acolytes carrying freshly finished pages to and fro, each page beautifully illuminated wih pictures of the binary saints, to ward off Beelzebug.

See also: the first part of A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Thank you for this. I had never heard of this book, but it sounds intriguing, and my local bookstore happens to have a copy.

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