Category: Spec Fic
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Separation Anxiety
Literature offers us many answers to the dilemma of victorious warriors: the lucky, like Achilles, die; the unlucky, like Paul Atreides, go quite mad. Agamemnon is murdered, Odysseus turns feral; this is the way the world ends, never all at once.
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tis black/out back.
The only reason this post isn’t called this fuckin’ ‘verse! is cos I was scared of the search-spam said title would generate. I have been burned, and I repent, whatever Gibbon might think. Well, then. Last month the mylaw books column was all about women. It was an exercise I undertook with a fair measure […]
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Mirrors & Myths.
This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, nonetheless, they loved the way it moved, its limber neck, its very gaze, mild and serene. Not there, because they loved it, it behaved as though it were. They always left some space. And in that clear unpeopled space they saved […]
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Pitching SpaceTime
A pitch for the combined reading of Ranajit Guha, History at the Limit of World-History and Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject. In two interlocking review-essays. was roundly rejected. for it featured most alarming graphs. Limits, in math, are a clever, offside approach to concrete integers. If you apply them to functions, they can illuminate indeterminate […]