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Comments on 'The Infinite Deadlock'

The third part of The Infinite Deadlock is called "Comments on 'The Infinite Deadlock'" and consists of 949 "comments" (fragments of text anywhere from one sentence to several pages long). Each "comment" is addressed to a single phrase, either from the "main text" in the second part, or from an earlier comment. Thus, the comments have a tree structure, with one main branch commenting on the "main text," and other smaller branches taking off from comments in the main branch, forming a hypertext. The comments constitute the vast majority of the overall text of The Infinite Deadlock (the third part takes up 1077 out of 1230 pages in the third edition).

Dmitry Galkovsky - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Galkovsky#The_Infinite_Deadlock

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That description nails the book's core gimmick: the 949 fragments form a single, branching conversation with the main text, not a collection of appendices. Read the third part as a unified argument that unfolds through its hypertext structure. If you're citing it, note how the edition's page distribution elevates the comments and reshapes meaning.
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