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The Maze of Transparencies
The Maze of Transparencies | Karen An-Hwei Lee
10 posts | 2 read | 4 to read
In the near future, when an epidemic of cyberfatigue has triggered a technocracy collapse, an orphaned data cloud narrates the quest of Yang as he visits each of the harbingers of happiness.
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Robotswithpersonality
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This was 90 percent linear and prose enough for me to comprehend; the other 10 percent was very "poetic". Current worries led to downfall of society. Reliance on technology pros and cons debated within framework of dialogues between survivors and remnants of an AI's personal reflections. Evocative descriptions, important convos around information control, language deterioration and evolution, autonomy of artificial beings. Glad I read it.

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merelybookish
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TheSpineView Great poem! 🤩 3y
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diovival
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Second warm day in a row!! I really needed this. 🔆

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diovival
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"The analog flying foxes of the air, the fruit bats with the wingspan of a child, roost under the eaves and orifices of the rotunda, upside-down like furled umbrellas in the groove of a coat rack or a lacquered tree."

Lindy 🦇👍 4y
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diovival
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Someone please tell me. Is Karen fucking with me?? I just want to know. Asking for a friend. That friend is me. Because I am in tears, literal tears, crying laughing at the literary excess.

rockpools Exactly how I imagine an orphaned data cloud narrating 🤷🏻‍♀️ I‘m kind of intrigued by your quotes - it looks quite something. Are you actually enjoying it or...? 4y
diovival @RachelO I am oddly delighted by the absurdity. This is so much like beautiful nonsense. I keep reading but I don't know wtf I'm reading. It's a toss-up whether someone else would enjoy this or chuck it across a room. 4y
rockpools @diovival 😂😂 I don‘t think I could handle it right now, but I‘ll definitely keep it on my radar! 4y
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diovival
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I cannot stop giggling. These sentences are extra as f***.

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diovival
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"The information highway, bereft of its data warehouses, lies noiseless as a liquid gold sun drops into the horizon, one glowing elegy to a bygone age of digital flotsam and jetsam."

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diovival
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Book: "...this age of crisis. No amanuensis...”

Me: *puts dictionary on speed dial*

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diovival
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This sounds like such a strange little book. #nextup

Sace That does sound....unique. 4y
ItsAnotherJen I'm intrigued. 4y
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diovival
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Today's #libraryhaul. Not sure which book to start first.