Status Updates From Antarctica

X - still after building his ice hut & getting snow skills on he moons over Val in video by Ta Shu:

There was footage of her and once he watched this footage over and over for most of one Sunday. Then he trashed the fine and stopped looking for such things. But glimpses of her in Ta Shi’s program would be ok

What is he fuckin 15 years old? What a dork.

He studied Heraclitus & coop economics - wtf

Lame characters:

X- a weepy love struck puppy & coop savant, playing now at mountaineer after being being such a dork earlier- who is this guy anyway?

Ta Shu- a feng shui geomancer Oi vey who talks “ like a long succession of incoherent fortune cookies” as X said when listening to a him on the Yangtze using a poor translation program from the Chinese

Wade to Phil : co-opification vs the Gotterdammerung!

Oil companies vs Antarctic co-op of X

So much “quiet as he thought it over” repeatedly in some stretches so it looks ridiculous…

So now we must learn this earth as closely & completely as our Paleolithic ancestors knew it on the Savannah ; we must know it in the mode they knew it, as scientist & lover in one. The LOVERKNOWER. We must draw the Paleolithic & the postmodern together in a single design.

Wtf are you even talking about…

With arrival of first women in Antarctica, six of them on Nov 11, 1969…

And this they began the end of the yang dominance of A , so militarized & peterpanized; this they began the start of A’s entry into the fully human world, a balance of yin & yang, of men & women, together surging dynamically this way & that, yes even at the very moment we speak.

Oh getting very new agey here with Feng Shui Master laying out history of too-yang Antarctica

… or maybe a tragic penguin accident.

Omg this X guy just brooding & moping around like a sullen teenager… I’m ready for the unforgiving cold & desolation of the Frozen Continent to claim him…

Very Michael Crichton-coded, meaning low sci-fi adventure, techno-ecocatastrophe, loads of technical jargon and exposition, but surprisingly even MORE verbose. Over a third of the way into the book and nothing of note has really happened... but the central trio of characters are interesting, and the cold isolation of the Antarctic is palpable.