Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.'
'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?'
'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?'
'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.
Tags: nerds geeks social-awkwardness
...he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him.
China MiévilleI have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me.
China MiévilleI have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
China MiévilleI turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam-powered god. I turn and walk into the city my home, not bird or garuda, not miserable crossbreed.
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man.
She was Remade she was (Remade scum), he knew it, he saw it, and still he felt incessantly what was inside him, and he felt a great scab of habit and prejudice split from him, part from his skin where his homeland had inscribed him deep. [...]There was a caustic pain as he peeled off a clot of old life and exposed himself open and unsure to her, to new air. [...] His feelings welled out and bled together (their festering ceased) and they began to resolve, to heal in a new form, to scar.
China MiévilleThe sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […]
Their language is organised noise, like all of ours are, but for them each word is a funnel. Where to us each word means something, to the Hosts, each is an opening. A door, through which the thought of that referent, the thought itself that reached for that word, can be seen. […]
When they speak they do hear the soul in each voice. That’s how the meaning lives there. The words have got . . .” He shook his head, hesitating, then just using that religiose term. “Got the soul in them. And it has to be there, the meaning. Has to be true to be Language.
Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
China MiévilleEverything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.
China MiévilleGet back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.
China MiévilleTags: practice procrastination theory problem-solving applied-science practical-applications
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