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.

Alan Turing, the cryptographer and computer scientist, is a colleague and friend of Lawrence Waterhouse and sometime lover of Rudy von Hacklheber.

Rudolf "Rudy" von Hacklheber, a non-Nazi German mathematician and cryptographer, who spent time attending Princeton University, where he befriended Waterhouse and Turing.

where he befriended Waterhouse and Turing.

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