So there's some book/art-project thing called Iterating Grace by an (well, two) anonymous authors. And a lot of terrible terrible speculation as to who that author is. A few interesting bits of text that may be relevant:
- "lived with my family in Houston" - a fairly innocuous location. Also we have two layers of indirection from the nominal author, as this is a friend of an Italian who discovered it on a mountain in Bolivia.
- "I teach poetry writing and live in San Francisco" - clearly by someone in the Bay Area.
- "at a string of forgotten startups in the late nineties: Naka, InfoSmudge, BITKIT, Popcairn" - All completely made up.
- "fully post-meal" - obviously a swipe at Soylent, but not particularly meaningful
- "his Bernese mountain dog, Smoot" - Smoot is obviously a Boston/MIT reference, one way or another.
- "driving around the west by himself, visiting national parks and Waffle Houses" - Waffle House is a quintessentially Southern chain, it's incredibly bizarre that he'd travel the *west* visiting them.
- "then paper-clipped a small, dried wildflower to the blank side"
- "photograph of Vannevar Bush" - probably best known for the concept of the memex, a predecessor of hypertext (and the internet)
- "a lot of misconceptions about the llamas" - at this point we go from satire to farce.
- "like Da Vinci's drawing of Vitruvian Man" - I feel confident that whoever wrote this was not a fan of The Da Vinci Code. Which is another case of attempting to make something meaningful out of pure nonsense (except, the book being fiction, the protagonist succeeds, saves the world, yada yada yada)
- "THE SHARING ECONOMY ;)" - clearly not a fan of the sharing economy.
- the tweets - the main moral of the story here seems to be that "startup as a metaphor for life" is absurd at best.
- "llama : vicuna : animal : free." - the word "vicuna" associates to "Love in the Time of Cholera" to me, which also takes place in South America. This almost certainly means absolutely nothing. It's also not quite an SAT-style analogy.
