My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
("Perdido Street Station")
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A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
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A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
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The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?
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Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.
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