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Gematria is featured a lot in scott alexander’s Unsong (serialized fiction that was published in via blog) http://unsongbook.com/

Very quick summary is that Kabbalah is real, and corporations set up content farms to brute force search for names of god so they can copyright and sell them.

It’s a really fun read (author probably also has a hacker news account, so if you see this comment thank you for writing such a fun book).




This sounds a lot like Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in that they're a mash-up of (1) taking an ancient tradition literally and (2) a critique of capitalism and modern culture.


Throw in a bit of the movie Pi for good measure :)


With The Bible Code in 1997, Pi in 1998, The Matrix in 1999, Waking Life in 2001, the turn of the century was a trip.




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