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"Part of our rejection of first-person perspective is also a rejection of the authoritative position that the notion of a canon assumes....Each contributor has told their story about the same underwater city, and each telling has its own specific perspective, the way any two "true stories" about our own world can provide differing, or even incompatible, visions of our reality."

"Our prohibition of the first was, in part, a reaction to the fiercely individualistic authorship presumed in rap lyrics, so in imagining what a Drexciyan utopia might look like, through the lens of clipping.'s linguistic rules, we imagined their culture might affirm collectivity over the individual, and therefore the plural over the singular."

"This little thing in front of us is the tiniest of our kind in this moment. One day it will be full-grown. One day it will take over where we've left off."