Incidental window dressing

[alice wellintown]

I didn't use this phrase, but I stand by the assertion that P's use of
science, and lots of other stuff,  is not essential, not all that important
 to any of his works. The absurd use of erudition is another standard
element of the genre he prefers, the anatomy or mennipean satire. Do we
really need to know all that stuff rockets or space-time when reading a
work like GR or AGTD? Nope. In fact, the novels frustrate and playfully
upset our attempts to read them with all that science and theory.

Do you watch LOST? Same shit P does, but on TV.
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