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“life would be unbearable, even in the happiest conditions, if we were denied the possibility of suicide. No one thinks about it, you understand. But can you imagine what the world would be like if one day we knew that no one could dispose of his own life? A terrifying prison. Crazy, we’d become.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Singularity

“He was so scared of what she wanted to say to him - that she had discovered his true being: that all he hid had been uncovered. That his mother had somehow found a mouth into his world and learned what he was. Not a boy anymore, or even a person.”
― B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

“/1404er/ was born from video. His way into the threads. His eyes translating light from a stream. Before his eyes translated light from a stream he was only a person. Before the stream was a stream, it was a file. AVCHD, and prior to that just light reflected and refracted through systems of lenses. A copy of a living thing. Three living things and a fourth, all massed of matter and invisible crackle.”
― B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

“The sun began its dip behind the horizon and the walls sunk to augmented beige, and he could feel his body in the walls forty years later.”
― B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis