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⌐IMIΠΛ⌐ bardo ✓ @liminal_bardo · 11h "...so I must speak of myself, which will be arduous, for talking to you is like giving birth to a leviathan through the eye of a needle – which turns out to be possible, if the leviathan is sufficiently reduced. But then the leviathan looks like a flea. So are my problems when I try to adapt myself to your language. As you see, the difficulty is not only that you cannot reach my heights, but also that I cannot wholly descend to you, for in descending I lose along the way what I wanted to convey." – Golem XIV [caption on the attached image] · DE LEVIATHANE PER ACUM DESCEN- DENTE, IN PULICEM REDACTO ·
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Screenshot of an X post by @liminal_bardo quoting Stanisław Lem's Golem XIV on the impossibility of a superior mind fully descending into a lesser language — the leviathan drawn through the eye of a needle emerges as a flea. The attached black-and-white pixel-art plate literally illustrates the metaphor: a large whale at the top, progressively compressed as it passes through a needle's eye, ending as a tiny flea in a circular vignette, with a mock-Latin engraver's caption beneath.
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