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What is the technology of magic? For the answer we must turn not only to computer science but to the most ancient of arts, perhaps the only art: poetry. It is in poetry that we find a developed understanding of the workings of magic, and
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“for as leaves are to limbs, so are your words to your soul”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.”
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“On Gay Street the traffic lights are stilled. The trolleyrails gleam in their beds and a late car passes with a long slish of tires. In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life’s other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.”
― Suttree
― Suttree
“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”
― CLOSURE
― CLOSURE
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