Though we can all agree that Paul Graham was full of shit when he said computer hackers were like painters (in his essay Hackers and Painters), I guess I don't want to read these essays by someone who's done computer-y stuff and creative stuff and has informed things to say about about how they're alike/different. It was interesting to read that India's caste system is all entangled in the study of Sanskrit. But there weren't enough interesting bits to hold my attention; I eventually put this book down.