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Kyle
is on page 178 of 266
The second part of this novel reveals what the coyly voluptuous book cover had indicated all along: the book has less to do with clouds as a metaphor, and more the tangible qualities of sex. Even the prudish scientists and theorists whose higher thoughts would have placed them above the stratosphere of carnal desire, unlike their present-day book-collectors, they are as likely to dip their quills into exotic inkpots.
— Dec 09, 2014 01:18PM
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How suddenly the story had gone from a celebration of the artistic and amorphous qualities of the world, to the scientific attempt to understand it all, to the gossipy scandals of leading scientists and at last to the socially disconnected system of computers keeping track of data that once used to inspire wonder. The entire story may only be a curiosity to someone living in a hard-hit wreck after another superstorm.
— Dec 18, 2014 10:55AM
Kyle
is on page 229 of 266
The sex-crazed scientist setting up a protocol for observing women and their (to borrow the icky euphemistic word repeated in place of anatomy) sex at least made one important discovery: the isomorphic quality of everything tends towards the same shape. Other chapters consider how much of a human body water mass, whether smashed onto a sidewalk or instantly vaporized in a flash, will transfer into the idyllic shapes.
— Dec 16, 2014 10:53PM
Kyle
is on page 87 of 266
The strange Scheherazade continues to fill Virginie's working day with amorphous tales of painters and skywatchers; the bibliomaniac Kumo, whose name means 'spider', seems to have an acute awareness of all elements in he air, while the stories he collects start to resemble those whaddyacallems that float around in the sky. Not sure what to really invest my interest in, as it is clearly not about Hiroshima's mushroom.
— Dec 04, 2014 03:02PM
Kyle
is on page 35 of 266
One has to wonder how many novelist were on the inside edge when cloud computing was becoming a thing in the second half of the first 21st century's decade: Cloud Atlas being one example and this Theory being another. Turns out it is the organic, quasi-chaotic system that appealed to 19th century Quakers, German Romantics, French librarians and prostitute-loving Japanese billionaire couteriers.
— Dec 01, 2014 11:53PM
