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“Heaven was not intended for the casual visitor; any paradise in which the flesh-constrained would feel at home would have been intolerably pedestrian to the disembodied souls who lived there.” I fell in love with this quote near the beginning of the second section of Blindsight.  I almost automatically love any quote having any sort Continue reading →

“She was an abstraction in an abstraction: an impossible intersection of dozens of bright panes, as if the disassembled tiles of a stained-glass window had each been set aglow and animated”. Blindsight, Pg. 142   After reading some of Part II in the book Blindsight, I found that the most compelling sentence in the book […] Continue reading →

Saturday, November 05, 2311 Today four raiders from another Human-resister village brought a Human-born male construct child into Phoenix.  Damek, Galt, Iriarte, and Kaliq were their names.  They fuckin’ stank, and no one trusted them from the get-go.  Akin, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Note: For the purposes of this blog, I made Akin a little older than he is in Part II, chap. 11, where I got my ideas from. ~KP   I have got to say, today had to be the weirdest, yet most interesting day in my life (well, in my new life). The day started […] Continue reading →

 Dear Diary, Sorry I haven’t been able to write recently, things have been sort of crazy. I’m also sorry I can’t put an exact date on this entry. The guys and I, minus Tilden (more on that later), have been traveling nonstop since we found a ex-Phoenix man called Tino and a kid. Yeah, a real kid! I can’t […] Continue reading →

Up until Adulthood Rites, Lilith’s Brood has been a story of the human race gradually being deprived of its “humanness.” While the Oankali may be friendly imperialists who want to have hot sexy times with the humans – they are still imperialists nonetheless. Imperialism is a force that deprives another being of its agency and […] Continue reading →

Day 232 on Earth Our village of Phoenix received visitors today; large men who brought with them a stench almost unbearable to be near. Near their feet, a baby stumbled along, bearing a hopeless, emotionless expression on its face. My … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some sort of journal: I don’t like it. It’s not right. They’re the ones who did this to us. The ones who take away our last vestiges of freedom. Why should we ever try to bargain with them? Those monsters won’t ever change us back. They won’t fix us. They’ve taken something from us that Continue reading →

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 →

Yesterday we ventured to the trade village in hopes of kidnapping the most human-looking infant construct we could find. It is still unimaginable to me that humans should choose to live amongst and intimately with those goddamn aliens. It fucking … Continue reading → Continue reading →