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Formerly based in Los Angeles, I now live on the outskirts of Paris. My path zigzags somewhere between science, the arts, and computer science — always in pursuit of those murky zones where languages blur, collide, and quietly corrupt one another.

The Swerve of the Infinite began as a serious joke, triggered by a back spasm. It turned into a kind of construction game — filled with references that make me smile, obscure rules, and a few bugs left in on purpose, just for the wink. Before writing anything coherent, I filled notebooks with diagrams, hexagrams, code fragments, and inside jokes meant for three friends and, perhaps optimistically, a few family members. The novel eventually stumbled out of this mess — almost by accident.

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Dispatch #02: The Giveaway Conundrum

(Or: What happens when a book begins to multiply itself?)

- 2,579 readers pressed a button.
- 2,366 shelved The Swerve of the Infinite as “Want to Read” — which is somewhere between flattering and existentially destabilizing.
- 10 have been selected by the Goodreads gods (or algorithms — is there a difference anymore?) to receive a physical copy.

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“Deviation is the light that illuminates the pattern.”
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“The swerve is not a deviation from the path but the path itself—the eternal dance of will and circumstance that births universes from the void.”
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“The system doesn’t stop deviations. It dreams them first.”
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“The rain speaks in code to those who listen. Pattern recognition is the first language of consciousness awakening to itself.”
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