[UA] Autobiographical memes

[kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu]

holycrow at mindspring.com spake:
>>>  I've long argued that this is the purpose of biographies and
>>>autobiographies, and why I don't read them - they're attempts to
>>>replicate some or all of your personality into the host minds of >your
>>>readers.  It's a low-tech version of the War of the Memes (c.f. John
>>>Barnes, _Kaleidescope Century_ and _Candle_).
>>Also, Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_.
>>cough<  "Das Garten," >cough<

  Is there a citation in the house?  Author, perhaps in an English
translation?

-- <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>

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