by orchaeus | Apr 17, 2021 | Status Update
I don’t know when it started. But many years ago I began to have a kind of vision occasionally. It took the form of a story. A story about time. In the vision, one day, out of nowhere, the »coherence of time… its harmonies and rhythms… suddenly...
by orchaeus | Apr 17, 2021 | Status Update
All the flotsam in the maelstrom That swirls around my life The gifts, the books, the objects The sounds and loops of circumstance The photographs, the scribblings Late at night, alone The wisps of dreams and terrors Waves collapsing into foam All the things I touched...
by orchaeus | Apr 15, 2021 | Status Update
“Essentially, most modern humans are too self-retarding intellectually to be safe around silverware, so I suggest we develop intelligence rather than machines, which generally retard our already threadbare ignorance further toward disaster.” —...
by orchaeus | Apr 15, 2021 | Status Update
Some doors don’t exist until you open them.
by orchaeus | Apr 15, 2021 | Status Update
“What we call ‘natural gas’ is a colorless, odorless* substance. The asterisk is there to remind us that some creatures, insects, plants and animals… probably some humans, too, can detect its presence in the local atmosphere at various...
by orchaeus | Apr 15, 2021 | Status Update
“To observe beings with a microscope, we must usually kill them. Now, translate this analogy to the functions of your mind. When you evaluate, you collapse the native dimensionality of beings into an abstraction. This produces something like a manipulable token....
