PARALLEL UNIVERSES….Daniel Davies joins the Crooked Timber gang today and celebrates the occasion with a genuinely eccentric post.

Anyway, I can’t make any sense of it, and I’m pretty sure that Canberra is the capital of Australia, but beyond that you’re on your own. Uqbar is explained here.

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