When you successfully complete the game, type NOTES to get the author's background to the game. Only then will it all make sense. The two literary inspirations were The Age of Wire and String, by Ben Marcus (for the "ostensibly precise language...that was very difficult to make sense of, and a glossary that just added to the confusion") and The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (for the goal of "bringing the sun" and the "strange (though English) vocabulary that the reader has to pick up on the fly").
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