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Thread: "Anathem" - the backlash begins

  1. 2008-10-01, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #14
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    Default Re: "Anathem" - the backlash begins

    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Silver View Post
    When I first saw the thread title I assumed bossmiley had made a typo. It seems I was mistaken. Seriously, when the author can't even be bothered to put the third letter 'a' in the title it doesn't really bode well for the language used in the rest of the book.
    Seeing as the word/title is meant to bring to mind both "anthem" and "anathema" I think I can let that pass.

    Edit - specifically it's "a mathic ritual by which one is expelled from the mathic world" (an anthem that makes one anathema).
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