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Tom mentions this book by scholar Greg Anderson, describing it as 'altogether weirder' and explaining it's about how the academic structure of writing history prevents us from understanding how strange and weird the ancient world was.

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Dominic mentions this book about the Aztecs, noting that Townsend includes 'passages of almost imaginative prose' and 'stream of consciousness chapters' where she tries to describe the Aztec world through their eyes. Referenced in discussion about trying to understand ancient mindsets.