Fun stuff in M&D

[Ya Sam]

> > I am not with my copy of ATD, but I was just referring to the screams 
>under
> > the sand/silicon connection in that submarine trip under the sands....a 
>bit
> > on the anti-humanity of computers,I might argue.
> >
>
>I don't recognize the reference. If anyone has a page number I'd be happy 
>to
>discuss it, though.

I was just re-reading this episode. One of my favourites. I also think that 
it's a nice reference to the Silicon Valley technology:

'Inexplicably, as if attending to ancient voices somehow preserved in the 
crystallography of the silica medium which was so mercilessly engulfing the 
town—as if secret knowledge had once been written that permanently into its 
very substance—they began to fall year by year under the influence of the 
old para-Christian doctrines. The first under-sand explorers here had 
identified Manichæan shrines dating from no earlier than the fourteenth 
century, clearly a thousand years more recent than they ought to have been.' 
p. 439

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