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Robert Paglino
Chelsea
Reaching, grasping things, feigning acceptance, feigning friendship.
It’s not a strategy, for God’s sake! Can’t you see I’m hurting?
“Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.
Qube
proprioceptive polyneuropathy.
pithed.
Turned a noun into a verb? question
they couldn’t feel where the hand was so they’d look at it while it moved, use sight as a substitute for the normal force-feedback you and I take for granted.
“You use your Chinese Room the way they used vision.
Empathy’s not so much about imagining how the other guy feels. It’s more about imagining how you’d feel in the same place, right?”
“So what if you don’t know how you’d feel?”
the Rio Spire.”
THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN.
Bates took a split second to appraise the opportunity and the plan was plasma.
We would have bagged the whole animal right then if Rorschach’s magnetosphere hadn’t chosen that moment to kick sand in our faces.
like bait on a hook.
Simile Double
Bates and I,
Grammar editor!
Maybe I wasn’t so afraid of ghosts because this time we were after monsters.
a few meters farther on the walls— —squirmed
those writhing walls reached out with a thousand whip-like calcareous tongues that grabbed our quarry from every direction and tore it to pieces.…
Not against us. They had attacked one of their own.
According to HUD she’d lobotomized both grunts,
Now they were coming after us.
Why couldn't they have done both at the same time? Question
there was Sascha who was more resistant to Rorschach’s influence according to some criterion I never understood, curled up in a fetal ball with her gloves clamped against her helmet and I could only hope to some dusty deity that she’d set the trap before this place had got to her.
our warrior sedans slewed and shat sparks and bullets and dove out after her.
like a brick python.
Simile
some great round tumor writhing with monstrous worms.
Simile Ewww
Something slapped us to one side, a giant hand batting an insect.
Simile metaphor also p. 219
mites in a ping-pong ball,
Simile Unknown
spherules.
cannon net
he hadn’t mentioned it.
Haha
brane theory
justify this ongoing trespass into foreign soil, the capture and slaughter of its natives.
Imagine you are Amanda Bates.
Cunningham didn’t do gender pronouns.
Electrophoresis.
Protein synthesis is almost prionic—reconformation instead of the usual transcription pathways
once you’ve laid the groundwork, glycolysis is explosive.
“Live fast, die young. If they ration it out, stay dormant most of the time—who knows?”
they’re not really aliens. At least not intelligent ones. War implies intelligence.”
For ants etc. 'war' is a metaphor.
Maybe they’re just biomechanical machines.”
“What I’m asking is, are they natural? Could they be constructs?”
That’s the choice we have. We can be utterly useless, or we can try and compete against the vampires and the constructs and the AIs.
Robert Cunningham
I’d always had a hard time imagining the man.
