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Pag’s savior?

It started out like any other day. I went to the playground to play alone. I had only one friend, Siri, but I couldn’t even trust him anymore. That’s the story of my life, I’m so much of a freak that the only person who would hang out with me became an even bigger freak. […] Continue reading

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Scene: The Death and Reanimation of Sarasti

          Angular patterns, akin to mortal wounds on the meat of the living, disjoin my analytically-centered psyche. The Synthesist merely watches, his benign stare is almost expressing emotive reaction to my chaotic state when I feel. I feel. I feel…a pointed cylinder, three centimeters in circumference and a half meter in length, divide my mind […] Continue reading

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“Species Don’t Go Extinct. Now they go on hiatus.”

This quote from Deborah Maclennan on p. 357 perfectly captures a major theme of Blind Sight. This quote could really be applied to anything we have read so far as a class. These seemingly simple sentences can be very thought provoking. In the context of Blind Sight, this quote clearly applies to the vampires, which […] Continue reading

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“A sea of tortured faces, rotating in slow orbits around my vampire commander” (Watts 337).

      This sentence comes during Siri’s first contact with Sarasti since he was brutally attacked by the vampire. It is significant to the novel in that this is the reader’s first glimpse into the inner-workings of the vampire’s mind. Up until this point, Siri has merely alluded to the sadistic nature of Sarasti’s psyche with […] Continue reading

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“To be utterly rational”- Blindsight

“And then I wonder what it would be like to feel nothing at all, to be utterly rational….” (Blindsight, pg. …

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“…we’re feeling machines that happen to think(Watts, 194).”

“Jesus, Siri. People aren’t rational. You aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re—we’re feeling machines that happen to think.”  There are lines said by Pag as above, in the page of 194.  This short comment of Pag indicates the most … Continue reading Continue reading

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Among those who remembered the take, alter was codespeak for betrayal and human sacrifice. Alter meant cannon fodder (p 154)

This line came at the end of a long paragraph talking about the history of Multiple Personality Disorder, now known as Multiple Core Complex, and what “ancient” (modern day) scientists believed was the stem of the problem.  I really enjoyed … Continue reading Continue reading

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The diary of Nov 2nd, 2901.

Nov 2nd. 2901. weather:little bit cloudy. *I created some parts and just rewrote about the occasions which could be possibly happening after kidnapping Akin:)   This early morning, my father and I went to the village meeting. There were whole people  … Continue reading Continue reading

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Akin

What the hell is this thing?  It looks like some sort of half-breed between us and the squids.  And it talks like its my age…and that is not something a little baby should be doing.  I’m used to the squids, … Continue reading Continue reading

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From the Diary of Pilar Leal

Oh my god, I couldn’t believe my eyes today! A child…a beautiful little boy was brought into own town today! Four traders came in with their long rifles, carrying this little human boy they had acquired from one of the Oankali villages. We didn’t … Continue reading

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