Cryptonomicon

So this is Neil Stephenson's second book, after Snow Crash. It portrays Alan Turing and Godel as homosexuals.

``Lawrance can figure it out,'' Alan said. ``It'll give him something to do.''

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Soon it became clear that Alan really meant It'll give him something to do while we're fucking.

Discuss.

``It's me,'' Alan said. ``But Rudy's joking. `Turing' doesn't really have an umlaut in it.''

``He's going to have an umlaut in him later tonight,'' Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.