Ra

by qntm

Before the end of 1973 he has discovered a second spell,

In another minute, Atlantis will reach peak altitude. Around five minutes after that, it will crash into the Atlantic.

Of course with a name like Atlantis it has to go into the ocean

All we do know is that magic is incredibly complicated, magic heavily involves the human brain and the human brain is even more incredibly complicated.

This ties nicely to a conversation with my daughter this morning

And after that, actual God-damned flying cars."

This hits me in all the emotions. Growing up the future promised was flying cars, space cities, etc and that was suppose to be around year 2000.

she needs to ingest something which'll warp her brain sufficiently to force herself through the damned dream again.

The first shudder which passes through his office is mild enough that he doesn't consciously pick up on it.

While reading this our steel drink holder outside on the deck clunked with sun induced heat expansion

The answer to any question about magic is almost always "it depends"

Common phrase amongst strength coaches too

his operational role is to look into the akashic records,

I love the idea of the Akashic records

We think that what we are seeing is a previously unknown function of the human brain. We also think a new form of potential energy must be involved; this is the only explanation for the apparent violation of the laws of thermodynamics.

He gets up and stalks around the room, circling one of the heavy mainframes. It resembles a monolith from 2001,

This keeps coming up in my reading

PR' is Personal Record, 'WR' is World Record?" Garrett guesses.

PR or ER

medring, placed there as Garrett's last act before exiting the vehicle. The ring is set on minimum power, low profile, prioritising the most severe medical conditions, such as - initially - death. Its first act as Hatt's personal doctor was to reset his neck joint,

Quite the hat trick

in the little plant in Montauk, New York,

I,ve read that crazy conspiracy book, my favourite is the one sequel Music in Time. Where he talks about hanging out with mark hamil and helping alot of big bands like the Beatles make their music. It's wacky, delusional goodness

His name is King. "I don't want to waste too much time," he says. "So I'll use as few words as I can.

So I guess his first name isn't stephen

The drawing of rash conclusions

Ra sh conclusions

"Magic" is a totally artificial and arbitrary system of words, symbols, requests, responses, resources, services, rates and limitations. It is a collection of difficult hoops through which the common people must jump in order to get what they want. Mana is meted out to whoever asks for it in the correct way, with an upper limit set by what one human can hold in their head at one time.

"Technology makes everything easier," he observes phlegmatically. "It turns out that 'everything' includes bad things. Film at eleven."

"The Virtuals won. The Virtuals were right. Reality's been burnt to the ground, and even now it can still get worse. But they can have anything they want. How is this better than that?"

This is similar to the Matrix where the real world is shit.

Historical figures are being resurrected from guesswork, famed quotations and the multidimensional physical fingerprints they left on their world. Where the records run out and lack clarity, the human drivers of the engines tell the engines to choose what works.

Mandella effect?

"Trillions died

And Tritons too