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December 2, 2024 - January 7, 2025
Twenty Cicada
“I won’t even be the first, it seems. Lsel is far ahead of us, aren’t they? But we’re catching up.”
“It has been the deepest honor of my life to serve with you, my dear,” said Twenty Cicada. “Wish me luck.”
a man who believed that waste was the worst thing that could happen to a society was letting himself be devoured.
flock of starlings.
Simile metaphor cf. spun sugar in water
the Parabolic Compression.
the practice of balance
Neltoc
Teixcalaanli,
Neltoca.
Nine Hibiscus
Simile
the sudden hesitance of the enemy,
Sixteen Moonrise’s Parabolic Compression,
It was possible that he had simply eaten the fungus and died and the enemy had understood this as some sort of sufficient sacrifice.
all Shard-sight was grief or was single-minded determination that shut out grief
Eight Antidote
died ...
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discontinuity—
a Sunlit
Four Crocus’s
the order
Nineteen Adze’s
Nine Hi...
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Teixcalaan is civilization, and it is our job to safeguard it.
the Emperor commands war, her successor practices mercy.
This order
Eight Antidote
Haha
Four Crocus
Yes, he’d achieved what he’d set out to do, and no one would ever get that order from Three Azimuth to kill a planet.
And no, he didn’t think he’d made any difference at all.
Twenty Cicada
Three Seagrass
P. 454
there was still the problem of Darj Tarats, and who knew how long the détente Twenty Cicada had bought them would last?)
Twenty Cicada was dead. Or so far transformed that it was a functional equivalency.
“Mostly yes—we are, it’s appropriate, that name.
Haha
We—us and the others, we—want to establish.
The spook and her pet.”
Haha
Mahit
“We—we want to establish. Diplomatic protocol. For a period of cease-fire.”
send us people. People to prove we are people. The memory-sharers. To talk with.”
Twenty Cicada. Or what had been Twenty Cicada.
Everyone, Teixcalaanli or not, who had ever been part of some kind of shared mind.
“The diplomats will be humans who understand—collectivity.”
Two Foam
Nine Hibiscus
Simile extended oof
