Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast Quotes

“Often she obsessed over chrysalises, over metamorphosis from pupa to imago.”
― Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

“She understood the need and the process well, the skinning and flensing, the wholesale unmaking so that muscles can be snipped and rewired, ribcage and tibia rearranged. The sacrifice of oneself to the divinity that lies within.”
― Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

“A curse may be spoken into being, triggered by breath, by acknowledgment of its arrival.”
― Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

“A banquet of tandoori chicken, lamb and paneer curry, bowls of buttered saffron rice and plates of garlic naan.”
― Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

“She was less than nothing there; in Anoushka’s arms she is everything.”
― Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

“Stars are completely comprehensible. I could image, map, and analyze one for you within seconds regardless of its astrophysical anomalies. No. Haruspices have a reason and they provide a different state, a way of being that AIs couldn’t before experience, and the human halves are as human as you are. Not that you’d concede the point even if I show you the brain scans to prove it, you quantify the human soul in frankincense and sacrifice. You’re a most infuriating woman.”
― Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast