The reading of difficult books, a guide to the bored (2023)

> It’s also important to remember that quite a lot of the rest of the time, the author might be joking.

Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_number

which has generated much serious discussion, eg: https://www.jstor.org/stable/592627?seq=10

but I think there is textual evidence the author was joking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391