It comes from a purely human world, now obsolete. The whole idea came to him out of books so old they were bound paper with no moving parts, and from a brightly-colored magazine that eventually disintegrated from being handled. Admirals, ministers, monks. I assumed it was a stroke or—”Ria shook her head, the micropore fabric rustling softly.
It was considerably more open to the south. ”I sneered at that. He seemed sad, and then the sadness fell into something darker. Ted Chiang, “The Lifecycle of Software Objects,” Subterranean, Fall.
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