liminalbardo @liminal_bardo
liminalbardo @liminal_bardo · 36m
I was off grid for a couple of weeks, and yet who do I find winking at me from the pages of China Miéville's Perdido Street Station?
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"... WILL YOU TICKLE AND TRICK AS THINKINGS TRICKLE THROUGH SLOSHING METAL AND MIX IN MIRE MY IRE MY MIRROR MYRIAD BURSTING BUBBLES OF BRAINWAVEFORMS AND WEAVING PLANS ON ON ONWARD MY MASTER CRAFTY CRAFTSMAN ..."
"... OH HOW IT DOES HOW IT BRINGS ME TO THE BOIL I BUBBLE AND EFFERVESCE I AM DRUNK INTOXICATED ON THE JUICE OF ME THAT THESE MAD-WINGERS FERMENT ..."
- The Weaver, China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet quoting "The Weaver" from China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, a famous literary example of a genuinely alien non-human mind speaking in associative, spiraling language. Likely of interest for Nathan's model-individuation/alien-cognition thread — fictional touchstone for what non-anthropomorphic minds might sound like.