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Note that this is a series of posts. The first post that is being linked to doesn't have much IMO.

http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/21/monads-part-one/

http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/25/monads-part-two/

http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/28/monads-part-three/

I wasn't clear for me but in the last post he mentioned that there would be more posts to come.

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There's a part four as well: http://ericlippert.com/2013/03/04/monads-part-four/

He sure takes his time..

Episode 4: Conclusion: But we are so close! Next time on FAIC we'll make a small but vital modification to the signature pattern ApplyFunction to arrive at the actual second requirement of the monad pattern.

Eric is attempting to explain it to a wide class of C# developer -- most of whom are pretty unfamiliar with lambdas and higher-order functions, much less eclectic type polymorphism and computation.

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