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“A Spin membrane,” Jason said. “Seen from the outside. Mars has its own now.”
A chilling moment.
“Ibu Ina,”
Haha ewww
Ibu was a Minangkabau term of respect
there were more than five million Minangkabau living in villages and cities in the highlands;
they were famous for their matrilineal culture, their business savvy, and their blend of Islam and traditional adat customs.
Jala,
the New Reformasi
foreigners with legal problems are terribly commonplace in Padang.
Haha
Jala
“The small black wrinkled man.”
Is there really an adulthood beyond adulthood?
Chilling.
the Arch Port cities
Sumatra was the land mass closest to the Arch—
the New Reformasi government in Jakarta
made the city a functioni...
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Haha cool.
I would suffer through the drug regimen in some undistinguished hotel, and when it was finished—w...
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the Chaykin administration
rantau collectives,
Jala,
rantau gadang
“Sounds like a man who would be glad to sell us to the New Reformasi.”
“But we pay better. And present fewer legal difficulties, as long as we’re not caught.”
Wun Ngo Wen?”
Capetown Maru.
Cf. Kobayashi Maru
Haha - the Lawton money should be limitless? Question
my skin still alligator-textured and ugly.
En,”
budi,
scrubbing away a slough of dead skin.
Ewww
Windy enough that you could hear the trees talking to themselves.”
Was there still a zodiacal light or had solar pressure swept away the ice?
Simile
each branch and twig had what Jase called a resonant frequency.
“You describe it very beautifully,” Ina said. “Not half as beautifully as Jason did. It was like he was in love with the world, or at least the patterns in it.
Haha
Clearly, there was intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy; and, just as obviously, it was nothing like our own.
Imagining the Hypotheticals, one might picture hyperintelligent robots or inscrutable energy beings; but never the touch of a hand, a kiss, a warm bed, or a consoling word.
In NK theology the Spin became a sacred event but also a subordinate one: large but not as large as the God of Abraham; shocking but less shocking than a crucified Savior, an empty tomb.
the Martian drug
En
rantau,
adat,
Simile
Haha that’s what being an arrogant asshole will get you.
that dark ovoid scar across the lunar surface, that new but now ancient mare, was the result of a massive impact that had melted regolith from pole to equator and slowed the moon’s gradual spiral away from the Earth.
Astronomy
Martian drug? Question
Haha uh-oh
Haha ouch
