John Updike
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John Updike is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 10, 2022 and August 19, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “as John Updike said, “the mask eats the face.””; “including one from the American literary novelist John Updike”; “one from the American literary novelist John Updike”. It most often appears alongside Europe, Voltaire, 1587.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 10, 2022
- Last seen: August 19, 2022
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Related Pages
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- Europe (2 shared issues)
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- Voltaire (2 shared issues)
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587 (1 shared issues)
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- 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1 shared issues)
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- 50,000 BC (1 shared issues)
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- A Universal History of Infamy (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- Alexis De Tocqueville (1 shared issues)
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- Altamira (1 shared issues)
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- Altar of Earth (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
So yes, I think the Davids are right on this as well: there is at least suggestive evidence of a period of time, particularly around or right after 10,000 BC, of what might be called political experimentation by prehistorical humans. These nascent governments and formal systems of law and order might not have been taken all that seriously at first, more theatrical and seasonal in nature, until, slowly, as John Updike said, “the mask eats the face.”
Huang's writing is clear, evocative, and psychologically insightful - the back cover of my paperback edition features several paragraphs of critical acclaim, including one from the American literary novelist John Updike.