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"A journey, it telegraphs painstakingly, because the idea of travel is an emotion to them. Weighing of risk, fear (some specific interpretation of "reward" that has no exact human cognate), the satisfaction of accomplishment, triumph! And the chromatic flourish that the creature gives the sentiment justifies the exclamation mark..."
— Jun 22, 2020 01:32PM
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"Helena wonders if the octupuses have it better or worse. Except of course they wear their hearts on their skins, all the time. Perhaps there is simply no such thing as a private trauma, and hence no stigma to it. Perhaps they live their lives like operatic heroes and heroines, broadcasting the grandeur of their melancholies and their rages to all within eyeshot... that alternative sounds eminently healthy to her."
— Jun 11, 2020 07:48PM
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"Focusing on a large dynamic carnivore was old-style human thinking, the same idolatry that put lions and eagles on so many old flags."
— May 24, 2020 11:02PM
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"... when you went to an alien world and met the aliens, the aliens were supposed to be able to greet you. Advanced science as far as you like, the human mind continued to place itself at the centre of the universe. If not to create intelligence, what was it all for? Where were the cities, the spaceports, even the abandoned ruins of an elder civilization?"
— May 20, 2020 07:44AM
