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There it was, spilled across the flagstones, and no technology known to man could ever put it back together. It was incredible.
That was my materialistic revelation. What I’m trying to say is that what we call lasagna is simply a phenomenon that arises somewhere between the physical parts of the brain and in the way they’re put together, and anyone claiming lasagna is something more has underestimated how complicated the brain is and in how many ways its parts can be assembled. Or they have overestimated the phenomenon of lasagna.
Back then I felt bad about what I had done. Now as I drove past these places and thought about what had happened, I didn’t feel even a trace of shame. Birgitte had deserved it, and everything that came later. You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone. True. Birgitte was a fucking asshole and she was gone, and I felt nothing.
Fredericksburg, Paynesville, and Mesa Vista.
WHEN DID IT ALL START? I can’t really remember. It started like any recreational activity, I guess. Like TV. Sometimes they watched TV, and sometimes they sat there wearing their neurocasters. I didn’t care. It was after the big update of 1996 that things got weird. Mode Six. After that they rarely watched TV anymore. The house was quieter. I remember that sometimes when Amanda and I came home from school, Ted and Birgitte were still on the couch in the living room with their neurocasters on. They were completely out of it, and one night we amused ourselves by dressing them up. Amanda painted
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Heard name is Michelle
In the beginning, God created the neuron, and when electricity flowed through the three-dimensional nerve cell matrix in the brain, there was consciousness. The more nerve cells the better, and our brains contain hundreds of billions of neurons; that’s why we make better lasagna than chimpanzees. Like I said, no one really understands how all this works. The progress made in neuronics in the 1960s all had to do with our ability to read, copy, and send information into the brain, and the biggest discovery was how to send all that data between pilot and drone without latency. Neuronics was never
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as yet untouched by the chain reaction that had started far inland.
neurocaster,
side of the lake a ridge rose up. I assumed the lake was the bay marked as Bodega Bay
The movie
The Birds
He suspected that there was some sort of signal coming through on the neurographic network that made people sick and destroyed their will and turned them into slaves. The Reverend believed this signal was Satan and that Satan was luring people
Zombies
we no longer live in civilized times. You’re almost upon them, Walter. It is almost over.
assistants went away, and it was my grandfather who had to teach me how to change Christopher’s diapers and dress him and what he should eat and how I should feed him. It was my grandfather who started calling him Skip.
played, Skip was always Kid Kosmo and I was his sidekick, Sir Astor the space cat. At night when our mother was away with one of the men who gave her money, I would hold Skip and make up stories about Kid Kosmo and Sir Astor,
