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Madeline
is 89% done
failure of the medium to work properly during the death bed Covid call in the hospital, the use of other mediums (the nurse’s personal phone) to demonstrate the abundance in the face of failure (it might work
Versus the interview. Writing someone’s account and passing it off as if it’s direct transcription/the disappointment of others in this realization, but what about our accepted forms of transcription?
— Aug 24, 2026 08:32AM
Versus the interview. Writing someone’s account and passing it off as if it’s direct transcription/the disappointment of others in this realization, but what about our accepted forms of transcription?
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Madeline
is 89% done
Information filtered through other sources as simultaneously trustworthy, necessary and unreliable / multiple sources and methods of transcription through the novel (an ex’s friend, different doctors, covid call, child’s crying, a writer interviewing a professor, a man speaking with dementia, etc.)
— Aug 24, 2026 08:38AM
Madeline
is 89% done
Thoughts/ transcriptions are, inherently, not first person accounts, but the accounts filtered through a medium. New communication platforms/technology becoming extensions of ourselves/our mouths, so as to feel we are no longer using a medium to communicate - what’s lost when we don’t communicate directly face to face?
Emmy using a medium (iPad) to overcome her eating issues,
— Aug 24, 2026 08:28AM
Emmy using a medium (iPad) to overcome her eating issues,
Madeline
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“We all hear phantom voices. It’s a question of the right conditions, or the wrong ones. Unconscious inference, our brain guessing, making us hear what it thinks is likely there. We hear ‘as if.’ We are, together, erring. You are not disappearing into privacy. Hallucination, too, is social. We must sometimes adjust our antennae, no?”
— Aug 21, 2026 01:58PM
Madeline
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“I don’t understand how you permit them. That she sat in my house, my granddaughter. Head bowed over her so-called tablet. That she cannot lift her eyes to mine. Even if the light is blue, it is a black hole for the eyes. You know that I do not suffer from nostalgia, I am a partisan of the new. But only when it admits distance. Head bowed as if in prayer, this tiny creature.”
— Aug 21, 2026 01:37PM
Madeline
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“The air is alive with messages. Messengers, angels. The question is, do we have ears to hear? Although sometimes we listen without them.”
— Aug 21, 2026 01:17PM