Your Nuclear Literary Criticism Moment

[mmcirvin]

So I'm currently about two-thirds of the way through Neal Stephenson's The Confusion, and...
I'm starting to think that certain data on this page just might be relevant to the story. I suppose that time will tell.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Heh, i've had an idea like that rolling around my head for a while. It would be one hell of a trick, eh?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm a few pages further along, and now I'm certain. I don't even need to look up the neutron absorption cross-sections.

The Confusion gradually gets more and more tightly plotted as it goes along, in a way that Quicksilver wasn't.