Mark Ryall > Mark's Quotes

“FENCODE_11 had no precedents to feed on. It spewed out listless petitio principii, circular reasoning. This majestic entity could not devise a way to force-feed people. Regardless of its raw power and dodecabit sophistication, it could not command the human physiological act of ingesting food. It fixated on a singular outcome: people should just eat, people should just eat, people should just eat.”
― narrator, Age-Decoded

“Their fasting, though physiologically undeniable, was artistically deep. Like artists, they forwent materiality for the numinous, the untapped, the lasting. If their hero Frieda could suffer locked away for two centuries, they could be hunger artists.”
― narrator, Age-Decoded