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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 02:00:18
Content warning: Muddled maunderings of a doddering fool.

#muddledMaunderings caveat emptor.
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A book is a set of possibilities. I read this in a short story in the November/December 2023 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The story was titled, The Four Last Things, by Cristopher Rowe. I don’t know why, but the phrase has attached itself in my mind. In the story, the phrase is almost a throwaway line, spoken by a character to an AI in answer to the question, what is a book? It’s like watching a meme invading my mind in real time. I can almost feel tendrils of connection spreading into, …
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-12 22:42:30
Content warning: Muddled maunderings of a doddering fool

#Muddledmaunderings caveat emptor
When I was 5, I saw my dad laying on his back, on my parents’ bed. Mildly puzzled, I asked what was he doing? I’m thinking, he said. After a beat, I said, oh, and went on wherever I was going. It hit me like a brick. The moment is graven on my memory. It was the first time I thought about my thinking. What was it? How did it work? How did I do it? (…