Draft 7: Yet more typos and copy-paste errors I introduced while trying to fix the text. Added the /z/ law L10a. Draft 6: More typos. Said anθtka for humankind instead of anθka in the lexicon. Added the -st coda. Draft 5: Added two sentences at the end of the accusative overlay paragraph explaining how theContinue reading “Laulai or Neo-Arcadian, language of the breakaway civilization”
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Character Simulation Part 1: Prediction
The Python library soma.narrative can be used to describe a fictional person in terms of feelings, beliefs, and relationships, run them forward in time, and then ask the kinds of questions a novelist asks: when would this person break? what is she really feeling under the composure? what single thing, changed, would have saved thisContinue reading “Character Simulation Part 1: Prediction”
Ruins
I. The Cloudy Lens The fog of a January morning in Shobhabazar coated the tongue with particulate matter and river damp and the faintly sweet residue of last night’s garbage fires. You breathed it in and it became part of you. The distinction between body and city dissolved in that grey, chemical intimacy. I wanderedContinue reading “Ruins”
Snapshots of the Labyrinth 