Stephen Donaldson likes to use obscure words. A lot of them. Reading his books, most everyone needs a big fat dictionary (or several of them) and time to digest the full meaning of his rich language.
But that's not a Law of Nature. When we become Cyborgs, with the mandatory built in Dictionaries, thesauruses and Wikis, reading Stephen Donaldson would be a whole different experience.
How will Cyborg You feel about the books now that their meaning has become instantaneously crystal-clear to you?
When the Cyborgs come
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My Microsoft Word X grammar check mechanisms take infinite time to process the text because the code was created by people who think compound/complex means EVIL, and "See Spot run" is writing.
The thesauri, wiki, and dictionaries declare genocidal war on each other, while all three sub-routines of my Semiotic database laugh and laugh and laugh.
My Master-personality software dual-processes in parallel streams: the right channel experiments with synthesizing appropriate emotional response to all 10 billion possible meaning combinations.
the left channels refines context-relevant means of expressing psuedo-sadness to the few remaining "humans" for the death of fantasy in the face of realism and technology.
My plastic-clad grey matter screams silently forever.
The thesauri, wiki, and dictionaries declare genocidal war on each other, while all three sub-routines of my Semiotic database laugh and laugh and laugh.
My Master-personality software dual-processes in parallel streams: the right channel experiments with synthesizing appropriate emotional response to all 10 billion possible meaning combinations.
the left channels refines context-relevant means of expressing psuedo-sadness to the few remaining "humans" for the death of fantasy in the face of realism and technology.
My plastic-clad grey matter screams silently forever.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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To me the books would have remained as good as before, perhaps better if there was never any language barrier. The richness of the language and the layers of meaning imbued in it would not have been lost. They would only shine brighter.
But if my dictionary-thesaurus-wiki addons interfered with my sense of enjoyment I could get them them offline for the 13 seconds I'll be reading the book and install the emotion-motion total-immersion addons for the nonce.
Vraith - obviously you need to install a new Googoo-Linux brain. Don't be afraid to explore your penguin side
But if my dictionary-thesaurus-wiki addons interfered with my sense of enjoyment I could get them them offline for the 13 seconds I'll be reading the book and install the emotion-motion total-immersion addons for the nonce.
Vraith - obviously you need to install a new Googoo-Linux brain. Don't be afraid to explore your penguin side
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Poppycock, I say!
His work is cobwebbed with improbable METAPHOR; topheavy with the cumbersome burden of a salutary incongruity.
Much of it would still be utterly impenetrable to the shallow illumination of algorithmic regularity; the faint path-light provided by the pulse of electronic synapses clicking away along their digital pathways.
That's all I got to say.
P.S. Kinda missed the Watch. <3
His work is cobwebbed with improbable METAPHOR; topheavy with the cumbersome burden of a salutary incongruity.
Much of it would still be utterly impenetrable to the shallow illumination of algorithmic regularity; the faint path-light provided by the pulse of electronic synapses clicking away along their digital pathways.
That's all I got to say.
P.S. Kinda missed the Watch. <3
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
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I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
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