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Scorpion is like an ooloi for Blindsight and Frankenstein

Let’s compare The House of the Scorpion to other works we’ve read.  I’ll try to rank them in some sort of odd sense of perceived similarity and, maybe, even message. There are some obvious comparisons between Scorpion and Frankenstein.  I think those particular comparisons resonate most strongly.  Let’s really look at the nature of the Continue reading

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The Scorpion

Of all the texts we’ve read so far, this book reminds me most of Lilith’s Brood. The trials that Matt Alacron goes through are much like the ordeal that Akin has to go through. Both boys get kidnapped at a young age and are treated with much contempt. At first their captors don’t treat them […] Continue reading

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Nadine Paulo SCIFI 2011-11-30 20:12:16

The novels we have read this semester share more similarities than not. For example, in “The House of the Scorpion,” we are presented with a beast. I find it ironic that in all the novels the most normal kind of … Continue reading Continue reading

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Another fucking meat story…

So, once again our instructors, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen a class text that is overwhelmingly preoccupied with “meat.”  We’ve seen it before.  Most prominent amongst the stories we’ve read this semester with a flesh-obsession would have to Neuromancer: … Continue reading Continue reading

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“House of Scorpion” is Different

“House of Scorpion” is an exceedingly interesting Science fiction novel. It is interesting because it is so different than anything else we have read this year in ENGH 451. Although there are many differences compared the books we have already read, two stand out to me. 1.The First is the fact that this is a […] Continue reading

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Death Throes of Theseus

I come out of blindsight.  I find myself talking, making public announcements.  Backups engaged.  Nav offline.  Starboard afferents offline. I cut the alarm I’d been singing.  Check diagnostics, take an instant to assimilate all data.  Rorschach’s attack: the jailbreak, the … Continue reading Continue reading

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School Yard Massacre: Told Through Robert Paglino

Prologue: Page 1 and 2 It had happened again, pain beyond pain, me having the shit beat out of me just because I was different. The names, the constant names being yelled at me before I was even hit, Siri told me later that they kept them up while I was being beat, but the […] Continue reading

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Nadine Paulo SCIFI 2011-11-22 09:10:58

I have been drifting for eternity. Drifting into nothingness full of stars, darkness, and space. I had been unaware of my appreciation for the silence, the loneliness, until only days ago. I wasn’t entirely sure what could have provoked them, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hindsight

Chelsea must’ve rehearsed 100 times how she was going to break up with him. The butterfly on her shoulder began to crumple and turn gray. How stupid she had been! How naïve! She could rewire the human brain in the time it would take to make a sandwich…and yet…how could she expect reciprocity – emotional […] Continue reading

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Information Theory Applied to Evolutionary Theory

“Metaprocesses bloom like cancer, and awaken, and call themselves I.” (303) In Blindsight, there are several references to Information Theory.  Admittedly, Information Theory covers a lot of shit.  In this blog, I’ll try to limit discussing information theory as it … Continue reading Continue reading

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