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'It cheers me to imagine that the air that once powered me could power others, to believe that the breath that enables me to engrave these words could one day flow through someone else's body. I do not delude myself into thinking that this would be a way for me to live again, because I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily. The pattern that is me [and the world in which I live]would be gone.'
— 15 hours, 46 min ago
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P.E.
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'I want to make sure we're clear about our motivations. I'd be terrific if our digients learned practical skills, but we shouldn't think of them as failures if they don't. Maybe Jax can make money, but Jax isn't for making money. He's not like the Draytas or the weedbots. Whatever puzzles he might solve or work he might do, those aren't the reasons I'm raising him.'
— 1 hour, 10 min ago
P.E.
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'Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they are not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.'
— 2 hours, 19 min ago
P.E.
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'Recently they have created a taxon with less cognitive plasticity, resulting in digients that should stabilize more quickly and stay docile forever. The only way to know for certain is to let customers raise them for years and see what happens, but the developers' confidence is high.'
— 2 hours, 27 min ago
P.E.
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What's Expected of Us
3☆
'The immediate problem is that Predictors demonstrate that there's no such thing as free will.
[...]
Some people, realizing that their choices don't matter, refuse to make any choices at all. Like a legion of Bartleby the scriveners, they no longer engage in spontaneous action.'
Voir aussi :
Story of Your Life — Ted Chiang
Division by Zero — Ted Chiang
The Stanley Parable
— 13 hours, 21 min ago
3☆
'The immediate problem is that Predictors demonstrate that there's no such thing as free will.
[...]
Some people, realizing that their choices don't matter, refuse to make any choices at all. Like a legion of Bartleby the scriveners, they no longer engage in spontaneous action.'
Voir aussi :
Story of Your Life — Ted Chiang
Division by Zero — Ted Chiang
The Stanley Parable
P.E.
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Exhalation
5☆
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so"
Voir aussi :
Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang (quantité de nouvelles qui partent d'un postulat audacieux !)
The Fish of Lijiang — Chen Qiufan (in Invisible Planets, tr. Ken Liu)
Le Monde sans fin — J.-M. Jancovici, C. Blain
The Devil in the Belfry — E. A. Poe
— 15 hours, 36 min ago
5☆
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so"
Voir aussi :
Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang (quantité de nouvelles qui partent d'un postulat audacieux !)
The Fish of Lijiang — Chen Qiufan (in Invisible Planets, tr. Ken Liu)
Le Monde sans fin — J.-M. Jancovici, C. Blain
The Devil in the Belfry — E. A. Poe
P.E.
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'Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.'
— 15 hours, 44 min ago
P.E.
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'[...] through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.'
— 15 hours, 45 min ago
P.E.
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'I was an everted person, with my tiny, fragmented body situated at the center of my own distended brain. It was in this unlikely configuration that I began to explore myself.'
— 16 hours, 18 min ago
P.E.
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"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"
3,5☆
Voir aussi :
Les 1001 Nuits
Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse — Jan Potocki
Reflection — Gu Shi (in "Broken Stars", tr. Ken Liu)
Story of Your Life — Ted Chiang
Tant que le café est encore chaud — T. Kawaguchi
— 16 hours, 51 min ago
3,5☆
Voir aussi :
Les 1001 Nuits
Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse — Jan Potocki
Reflection — Gu Shi (in "Broken Stars", tr. Ken Liu)
Story of Your Life — Ted Chiang
Tant que le café est encore chaud — T. Kawaguchi
P.E.
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' "It is said that repentence and atonement erase the past."
"I have heard that, but I have not found it to be true."
"I am sorry to hear that," said Bashaarat. "All I can say is that the future is no different." '
— 18 hours, 0 min ago
"I have heard that, but I have not found it to be true."
"I am sorry to hear that," said Bashaarat. "All I can say is that the future is no different." '