Alan Glynn's The Dark Fields is a terrible, annoying book, a non-technical liberal arts guy's misconceptions about what superhuman intelligence might be like. The movie version Limitless is better.

Watched The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 film. The thing about reading is you learn to see connections, webs, going back to the source texts; like how legions of fantasy books are descended mostly from Tolkien, some from Mervyn Peake, or H.P. Lovecraft.

Generally, tracing nodes in Pratchettian L-space goes backwards. I'd seen the very odd anime Gankutsuou:


I'd seen V for Vendetta. I'd loved Alfred Bester's novel The Stars My Destination (in my head I saw Colin Farrell as Gully Foyle) I saw how Bruce Wayne's rich playboy's persona takes elements from the Count's facade.