Babel (Part 2): The Necessity of Violence

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TW: (Spoilers)

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Then there was nothing to do but wait for the end.

How did one make peace with one’s own death?

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Babel (Part 1): An Arcane Translators Revolution

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Then there was nothing to do but wait for the end.

How did one make peace with one’s own death? According

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Adventures of the Body

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“‘When did the body first set out on its own adventures?’ Snowman thinks, after having ditched its old traveling companions, the mind and

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Ideology and Imagination

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Ideology, noun, an imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts.

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The Topic of Death

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Eventually, I considered it the topic of death.

I could kill myself now, probably. This was not normally an easy thing

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National Insecurity

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Steph: This is an excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, beginning on page 175.

It was only later, long after I’d forgotten

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“What’s crazier–plants speaking, or humans listening?”

An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 318-322, read by Steph.

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“A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.”

Maidenhair and Watchman trade smirks, like he’s just told them that science has

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In-group Realignment

An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 232-238, read by Steph.

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Four years at Fortuna College come down to one afternoon: Adam in his spot in the front row, Daniels Auditorium. Professor Rubin Rabinowski at

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Photosynthesis

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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 124.

It’s a miracle,” she tells her students, photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral. All the razzmatazz of life on Earth is a

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“It’s a great idea, trees.”

A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 114-115

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In this way, acorn animism turned bit by bit into its offspring, botany. She becomes her father’s star and only pupil for the simple reason that

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