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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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26NOV20 / accessions
Review project for the SFRA’s Extrapolation journal. Note the curious non-rectilinearity of the book’s lower edge; unsure if this is just a production accident being dumped out into the ARC pile, or a cunning design strategy intended to ensure the book always protrudes somewhat from its peers on the shelf… the former seems more likely,
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a helpful gloss over your basic oddity
One of the weirdest things about trying to learn a new language is how it just totally obliviates your personality. Have a sense of humor? Now you don’t. That sort of thing. And, even weirder, even as your personality is more or less consigned to oblivion, it somehow becomes a lot more stark. That helpful
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”