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You can understand why a system would seek information—but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

— James Tiptree Jr. Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973)

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Eerie blue, the wide old eyes reminded him of a place he had never seen.

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Because dying, any time, is an experience you don’t survive.

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