gorgeous digital apparitions

"Gorgeous Digital Apparitions," September 23, 2022 (#266)

title from "Liking What You See: A Documentary" by Ted Chiang (2002)

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein (2011)

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch (1974)

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981)

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)

Gorgeous Digital Apparitions

A major step in the conceptual separation of spirit and matter

altered everything down to the atoms and electrons. There was

the basement. For those who had such fantasies, the best job imaginable

seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly

at a rate determined by the value of the stamps required to keep the

thoughts and possibilities and explanations, not simply blood and

what the next instructions in the user program will be, and it keeps those

sleeping alone within doors, after dark. Yet I was still such a blockhead

it counteracts the inborn laziness of the human being. This logic taps

inevitably and however reluctantly at any rate with kindness and

I've always found that I'm a little off the beaten track. It doesn't bother

a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.

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