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The eyes in your radio
Finally I got more than five hours of sleep, so I had a boatload of dreams, most of which I cannot remember past an image or two. Ghosts, demons, a signed letter from Death, a garden made of rice raked into the maria and highlands of the moon. The very last one involved an AI named Christopher: I realized just as I started to wake up that he must be Turing's Morcom. What does that mean, awake? Was he a programmed re-creation? A ghost in the machine? An accidentally evolved consciousness? (You've made some changes since the virus caught you sleeping.) Between this and rakshasa Kipling and the dybbuk of John Adams—who I have never dreamed about, but for eight years I've wanted him to haunt this administration—I'm going to have to learn how to write historical fiction. Tell me it's not slash if the participants are historical and one of them is a thought experiment.
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I don't care what you call it; write it down, that's all!
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Rakshasa Kipling. I really owe him by now.
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Yeah. I dreamed about him last October and have so far completely failed to give him his own story. I need to work on my confidence with non-mythic material.
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I was pursued by ghouls last night, through the tunnel between my elementary and middle school (no such thing exists, except in the stories of my fellow students from that time), but I could fly at points and that was good enough.
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I will be pleased and honored to have been its impetus if I can figure out how to write the story! (Or poem. Or . . . I don't know, illustrated screenplay. I need research.)
I was pursued by ghouls last night, through the tunnel between my elementary and middle school (no such thing exists, except in the stories of my fellow students from that time), but I could fly at points and that was good enough.
Ghouls are an acceptable price to pay for flight?
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This Death had name-seals on its shoulders like epaulets. I do not know precisely how they translated into an imprinted signature, but that's mostly what I remember.
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I think that's very fair. On a scale from one to aqueduct, FEMA did not even rate the Cloaca Maxima.
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It seems entirely likely to me that this entailed specific Romans (particularly since his attention had presumably been focused on Rome by the fact that we were on that unit in class), but he didn't name names.
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It seems entirely likely to me that this entailed specific Romans (particularly since his attention had presumably been focused on Rome by the fact that we were on that unit in class), but he didn't name names.
A pity that he didn't name them. It would be interesting to know.
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Tell me it's not slash
Come to the dark side. We have Oscar.
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Thank you. I am conscious of the incredible amount of research that has gone into stories like "Notes Toward the Classification of the Lesser Moly" and "The Salt House," where I feel that other writers have the knack of isolating the particular historical details that fix a time and place instantly and thoroughly; I don't think I have that. On the other hand, my brain is currently generating too many phrases and images that do not take place now, so . . .
Come to the dark side. We have Oscar.
*snerk*
Of course, is it possible to slash Alan Turing?
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Rice raked into the maria and highlands, that's particularly striking, to me.
Although the AI is striking as well, of course. On the subject of Turing, did you ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? Turing was a minor character therein.
Tell me it's not slash if the participants are historical and one of them is a thought experiment.
Will you write it if we tell you so? ;-)
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Thank you. My dreams have a much better visual sensibility than my waking life.
On the subject of Turing, did you ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? Turing was a minor character therein.
Yes. I like best its World War II chapters, not least because some of them contain Alan Turing. Have you read or seen Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code (1986)?
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Most welcome.
My dreams have a much better visual sensibility than my waking life.
Interesting.
Have you read or seen Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code (1986)?
No, I've not. Should I? (And which option would you recommend?)
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It's a play; I've never seen it, although I know there was a television adaptation in 1996. Certainly I recommend reading it. It's not a biography of Alan Turing so much as an impressionist sketch of him, and I like it very much. Derek Jacobi originated the role.