Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 23, 2022 and January 18, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “It’s like how calling out injustice and highlighting the cruelty of those who ignore the less fortunate is all nice and well when Victor Hugo does it”; “Cao Dai … whose three main prophets are Victor Hugo, Sun Yat-Sen, and Trạng Trình”. It most often appears alongside Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 23, 2022
- Last seen: January 18, 2024
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- Bay Area (2 shared issues)
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- Los Angeles (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- Oakland (2 shared issues)
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- 1978 (1 shared issues)
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- 2016 essay (1 shared issues)
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- @april (1 shared issues)
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- @somefoundersalt (1 shared issues)
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- Abbott (1 shared issues)
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- Abstracted Will Of The American People (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
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.
Maybe something like: these are profound psychological truths, but their failure mode is to be reduced to preachiness and haranguing. And in a book called San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, there’s almost no way not to have them sound like preachiness and haranguing. It’s like how calling out injustice and highlighting the cruelty of those who ignore the less fortunate is all nice and well when Victor Hugo does it - but if the book is by Rachel Maddow, I am just going to skip those parts.
6: Cult of the month: Cao Dai, a Vietnamese group whose three main prophets are Victor Hugo, Sun Yat-Sen, and Trạng Trình. I actually got a chance to go to their Great Divine Temple when I visited Vietnam many years ago, but inexplicably missed seeing its Cosmic Eye:
Inline links: Cao Dai, Great Divine Temple