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It felt like a relationship. A friendship form of relationship, of course. A friendship-relationship. Yes.
My monster boyfriend
But through high language, my consciousness experiences your consciousness as you experience it, and vice versa. There is no medium.”
“PTSD is like cancer. You don’t cure it. Maybe it goes into remission, but you don’t cure it.”
Seeming to intuit that she was looking at him, Murderhostage craned his head in her direction and shrugged. The motherfucker shrugged. Maybe she should have killed him.
“The paradox of anti-government hysteria is it tends to lead to authoritarianism. The arrival of space aliens has not united humanity; they’ve only made us more tribal, more fractured, and it’s only going to get worse in the months and years to come. And now you have these proto-fascists arguing against the very idea of alien personhood and advocating for the creation of a whole different category of person altogether. One might almost say … three-fifths of a person.”
“It’s about us. It’s about how we treat our aliens, our lower classes. If they create a whole new class of person with fewer rights than a natural person, one created specifically for a nonhuman alien, how long do you think it will be before they start applying that to human aliens as well?”
A guy on a motorcycle a mile away revved his engine, signaling to the sleeping world, I am an ephemeral blip on creation, please pay attention to me.
“THERE IS A PART OF THE BRAIN THAT LIVES AND VIBRATES OUTSIDE THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, A PART TIED IN WITH WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL A SUBCONSCIOUS, WHERE THE BRAIN GREETS BUT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE UNKNOWN. THEREFORE, THE BRAIN CREATES FORMS IT UNDERSTANDS FOR THIS UNKNOWN—THIS IS THE DIVINE. THIS IS WHERE RELIGION COMES FROM, BOTH FOR OUR ANCESTORS AND FOR YOU. IT IS THE BRAIN GIVING A FORM TO THAT WHICH IT KNOWS TO BE TRUE BUT CANNOT COMPREHEND.
