by orchaeus | Dec 8, 2021 | Status Update
“When things don’t go according to plan, when the laboratory explodes into splinters of glass, smoke, and worthy intentions, it is very usual to subject the errant event to an analysis of what went wrong so we can draw useful lessons. Who doesn’t do...
by orchaeus | Dec 7, 2021 | Status Update
√ “What is the opposite of a shadow?” — a child was asking ( Note: See my cover image… )
by orchaeus | Dec 7, 2021 | Status Update
“Making love, with her, was like riding a horse that was made out of lightning. Forever. In any single moment.” — an anonymous informant
by orchaeus | Dec 7, 2021 | Status Update
This kind of thing (mono-valued, mechanical thinking) is a problem in general, with how we are trained to think about »meaning and identity in and by Western (and some other) languages. There are catastrophic issues with our category systems, and the substitution of...
by orchaeus | Dec 6, 2021 | Status Update
“Telling the truth is not a gloss on Science Fiction. It’s the other way around.” — nature
by orchaeus | Dec 5, 2021 | Status Update
“One kind of hell requires little more than the knowledge of some actual or possible Heaven from which one is excluded. Another is the imagining of a future state more bereft than this one. Yet another is the narrowing of the joyful aspects of one’s...