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Reading a paper about neural circuitry. Came across the word 'resonant circuitry'. Looked it up on wikipedia. Knew it had to do with band pass circuitry. Looked that up on wikipedia. Read in that entry that Thomas Pynchon claimed the character Kilroy was based on the circuit diagram for a band pass filter. You be the judge.




Any hoo, went to Pynchon's page on wikipedia and started to read. On the entry for his novel V, read about yoyodyne corp. Hey I know that from the GPL. Went to the (fictional) webpage for yoyodyne corp... Wait. Whaa!? What's all thsi? What's the time? Where am I? What am I doing here? Wasn't I just reading a paper on neural circuitry?

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