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| - | <p>It was a Linnaean décor; species clined into each other.</p> | + | It would hang, an absurdly massive tentacled sepia event. Architeuthis dux. The giant squid. |
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| - | < | + | “First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild” the paper was called, as if ten-year-olds had taken control of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. First ever. |
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| - | <p>We live,” he said, too flatly for any humour to be audible, “in the epoch of competing ends.”</ | ||
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| - | < | + | We live,” he said, too flatly for any humour to be audible, “in the epoch of competing ends.” |
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| - | < | + | And in this world where you now are, everything represents something. Get it? It’s really important |
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| - | < | + | “It’s the ends of the world.” “End of the world?” “Ends.” |
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| - | < | + | INTO SLEEP’S BENTHOS AND DEEPER. A SLANDER THAT THE DEEPEST parts are lightless. There are moments |
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| - | < | + | What you’re trying to do with planurgy is get things into other spaces, you know? Real things, with edges and surfaces, and all that. With origami you’re still dealing with all that surface area. There’s no cutting, you know? The point is you can unfold it, too. |
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| - | < | + | Constable. Pre-Steenstrup, so it’s what we call the atramentous epoch. Before we emerged from the ink-cloud. |
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| - | < | + | Architeuthis is kraken-spawn. Gods are oviparous. Not just our gods, all gods. God-spawn’s everywhere if you know where to look. |
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| - | <p>A Tibetan Book of the Dead by the Bhagavad Gita, by two or three Qur’ans, testaments old and new, arcana and Aztec theonomicons. Krakenlore. Cephalopod folklore; biology; humour; art and oceanography; | + | London was full of dissident gods. Why? Well they have to live somewhere. A city living in its own afterlife. Why not? |
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| - | <p>He read the names Dickins and Jelliss, Alice Chess. A spread about mutant versions of the game with arcane rules, bishops | + | Theurgic vermin, those once worshipped or still worshipped in secret, those half worshipped, those feared |
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| - | <p>You can’t see the future, there’s no such thing. It’s all bets. You’ll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn’t mean either of them’s wrong.</ | + | “You have to persuade |
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| - | < | + | A Tibetan Book of the Dead by the Bhagavad Gita, by two or three Qur’ans, testaments old and new, arcana and Aztec theonomicons. Krakenlore. Cephalopod folklore; biology; humour; art and oceanography; |
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| - | < | + | Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes. That variation, the disagreements, indispensable to the calculation. Triangulating possibilities. |
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| - | <p>The man’s dead. And the man at the other end only thinks he’s the same man. He ain’t. He only just got born. He’s got the other’s memories, yeah, but he’s newborn. That Enterprise, they keep killing themselves and replacing themselves with clones of dead people. That is some macabre shit. That ship’s full of Xerox copies of people who died.</ | + | The mnemophylax is the angel of memory. There’s one in all the memory palaces. |
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| - | <p>an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.</ | + | What’s the point of the theological turn? Is godness a particularly resilient kind of grubbiness? Maybe the turn is like an ultraviolet torch at a crime scene, showing up spattered residue on what had looked clean ground |
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