Some have lost specific numbers. Zero, One and Two form the most significant and different groups, with three or more lumped under “other”.

Lay down on the noise floor, let yourself sink into its fuzzy depths, watch the spikes grow over your head. Reemerge.

Dance on the noise floor like no one’s measuring.

it’s not you that I love↵it’s mostly the skin you inhabit↵the mannequin’s form that shows through↵and the utter lack of a spirit

From the project’s success follows crushing uniformity. From its failure, we become richer in culture and mythos.

Thesis: It is better for the building of a Tower of Babel to fail, than it is to succeed. This applies to any such tower.

The timeless refer to day and night as the hot and cool place. Motion is connection, not velocity. Ironically, they build great clocks.

The borderless have never learnt to count, for all is one inseparable. They are masters of shapes, everything they build fits in its place.

Those who do not conceptualize time↵Those who do not know forward↵Those who do not perceive borders between things↵They are, in a way, free.

from the catalog of obscure emotions: a fiction writer’s “oops. too real.”

The dream of the great unifying theory, the cathedral, was destroyed. In its place, we built many small temples. Babel.

But others segregated themselves into new communities. They would settle in cities that knew no straight lines, right angles, or lacked red.

The ontotypical mainstream consisted of people whose minds had taken only grazing hits. Still, language adapted in fascinating ways. Had to.

Mathematicians created new formalisms and a calculus of minds: Some were now utterly incompatible, requiring a mediator chosen by algorithm.

Philosophy grew a new branch: Much like neurologists learn about the brain by studying specific lesions, they now examined ontologies.

Those affected became unable to think certain thoughts: if they so much as resembled the killed idea, they fizzled.

All we knew was that the virus acted very specifically: it took out an idea, excised it from the mind, and left a taboo in its stead.

Drain the ocean to catch Moby Dick.

The sage who knows all the questions. They are not in the answer business, but equipped with the right question, you don’t need an answer.

One day the Giant King ordered to have his own map made.

They had alchemists breed gargantuan trees, and conscripted giants to play the part of the citizens. Wagons that could transport palaces.

He instructed to create a 10:1 map of his kingdom, so that he could study it in more detail. Every flower, bush, animal, ten times the size.

what if [part of map] were [part of territory] instead

diagram http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/692068973861605376/photo/1

Did you know there’s a cosmic ghost background? Without it, souls couldn’t enter bodies since the reaction annihilates a ghost (symmetry!).

For a while, a variant of the ghost bomb was used as a herbicide. It was discontinued after… side effects became known.

You will notice a lack of dandelion. This is because dandelion have souls and need them to blossom. They are among the few affected species.

It was as if the absent soul didn’t make a difference.↵But until today, walk the old battlefield and you will struggle to hold on to yours.

It was ineffectual in warfare though: Used against the king’s army, the soldiers became sad for a few seconds and then just kept charging.

The release of one rat ghost made more die and triggered a chain reaction. The resulting flood of ghosts severed many a soul from its body.

Soul physics: when a soul leaves the body, a ghost is created.↵Once they built a ghost bomb that used psychic rats with weak hearts.

“Time and Its Discontents”, Unknown Artist, 2016 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/691721651545882624/photo/1

A catalog of fictional and real monsters, indexed by the type of human part they eat.↵Blood - vampires, mosquitoes.↵Joy - dementors, ?↵etc

“Time and Its Discontents”, Unknown Artist, 2016↵funded by the city’s promotion of the arts in public spaces↵Maybe they’ll roll with it.

A clock in the subway had its face smashed, somehow its screen was still whole. Considering putting a plaque under it that declares it art.

Reluctantly, you slide your head into the opening, feel the lock’s pins bump against your memories. You turn, and hear a vast latch unlock.

Its usage in fridges settled the question once and for all: Yes, the light is on when the door is closed.↵Forgotten food in primary colors.

Light that doesn’t bleach color, but instead intensifies it. The inventor, overexposed by mistake, took months to lose his technicolor tint.

X in its mirror universe version

with life as the substrate for memes, what will use memes as substrate?

Diving down to the noise floor to find the rare memetic treasure scattered there.

it basilisks when it’s basilisk time

alien memes, embedded in the movement of the stars themselves, crossing the transmission barrier through astrology and finding new hosts

A toolkit for (re)constructing basilisks - echidna, mother of basilisks

The watermelon as such died out though, until geologists found the thief’s hoard 120 years later, embedded in shales from the Triassic.

A thief stole the seeds from all watermelons in the world without harming them or leaving a trace. Consumer reactions were largely positive.

what if X had agency/sentience

what if X could/were/made/contained/?? Y↵what if they wouldn’t

how to rationalize X for maximum hilarity