A few things of note from around the Internet this week: The Sleep Consultant A work of fiction by Robin Sloan: Disrobing in a hotel is special: the puddling of pants or skirt onto a floor unsullied by the rest of your life. The wall-to-wall window at my room’s far end is uncovered, and I leave it that way. I believe in the city dweller’s compact, and as such I must offer to the anonymous world the same view that I myself have taken in. (To clarify: any use of magnification, optical or digital, violates this compact, which exists between humans alone: slivers of pink, no taller than crescent moons, regarding each other across gulfs that are very importantly unbridgeable. Once, in downtown Los Angeles, I saw the glint of a lens across Flower Street, and oh, how I glared. There is a man still crouched beside his window in a tower there, immobile, turned to stone.)
Week of December 9, 2019
Week of December 9, 2019
Week of December 9, 2019
A few things of note from around the Internet this week: The Sleep Consultant A work of fiction by Robin Sloan: Disrobing in a hotel is special: the puddling of pants or skirt onto a floor unsullied by the rest of your life. The wall-to-wall window at my room’s far end is uncovered, and I leave it that way. I believe in the city dweller’s compact, and as such I must offer to the anonymous world the same view that I myself have taken in. (To clarify: any use of magnification, optical or digital, violates this compact, which exists between humans alone: slivers of pink, no taller than crescent moons, regarding each other across gulfs that are very importantly unbridgeable. Once, in downtown Los Angeles, I saw the glint of a lens across Flower Street, and oh, how I glared. There is a man still crouched beside his window in a tower there, immobile, turned to stone.)