- “a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.” — I keep keep loving to describe what’s going on, as they develop generate change adapt… Rere, the funnel view of spirits in painters
- ‘“Technology,” or “modern science” (using the words as they are usually used, in an unexamined shorthand standing for the “hard” sciences and high technology founded upon continuous economic growth), is a heroic undertaking, … an apocalypse.’ — don’t kill death. and see the tragedies, Paladium. The Genealogy of Chinese Cybernetics.
- “People have been telling the life story for ages, in all sorts of words and ways. Myths of creation and transformation, trickster stories, folktales, jokes, novels…” — which ones? metamorphosis, love, misunderstanding, birth. i love these i want to hold these stories. for example when framing the stories in these fields - Anthologies combining personal experience with literature reviews
- “a lovely fetus, a boy of course, drifting around the Milky Way without (oddly enough) any womb” — i keep wondering this! about playlist - talking to cells and growing organoids