Twilight Mirage 13: An Instinct Without A Word
Friends at the Table
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🗓️ 22 September 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
After joining each other for dinner, the crew of the reconnaissance ship Myriad tend to business before setting west towards a sprawling city.* Grand Magnificent and Echo Reverie find room for creative collaboration, while Even Gardner takes a journey of self discovery. And Gig Kep-Hart has a horse, and an eye for trouble.
Tonight I might change my life
This week on Friends at the Table: An Instinct Without A Word
The Remaining Records of Curiosity // Reference Code: A-Qu75-27-ASC
A Sprawling City
A vast glass dome. Darkened streets and buildings. Twisting pipes. Parks, tower blocks, tenement buildings, malls. The shadow of my drones.
Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)
Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
Episode description by Austin Walker
Music by Jack de Quidt
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| 0:00.0 | Report 132. |
| 0:09.0 | Are you familiar with the treatise on change, primary? |
| 0:14.1 | It's a small section of a larger text, |
| 0:17.4 | something about the breaking through the limits of human |
| 0:20.4 | cognition. |
| 0:22.1 | It postulates that there's no such thing as change, at least not the way |
| 0:27.5 | we normally talk about it. The writer, he was a soldier I guess. He said that we think about change like it's a light switch. |
| 0:36.7 | Like one day you press a button and things are different. |
| 0:40.0 | And so when we try to change things and it doesn't happen like that, it seems futile, impossible. |
| 0:48.0 | But that's wrong, he says. A light switch isn't even a light switch. It's connected to circuits and wires all hidden behind the |
| 0:56.5 | walls and if you slowed down time and if you considered all that went into a single switch, the natural metals, the design of the electronics, |
| 1:07.0 | you'd see that things only ever shift very slowly. |
| 1:11.7 | I don't know. What do you think primary? The upside I guess is that it means we should |
| 1:18.0 | keep trying to improve even when it doesn't seem like it's worth it. |
| 1:30.0 | But it also means that the weight of history guarantees certain negative changes too, |
| 1:35.0 | like asteroids on an impact course that no one can adjust. And the scary thing is, from inside, it's impossible to tell which we're working towards. And the Does everyone get back to HQ okay? |
| 2:14.6 | Everyone's back in old church. |
| 2:16.8 | Myriad is parked nearby now. |
| 2:20.4 | Gig rolls in on a horse in the middle of the night. |
| 2:23.0 | Wait, rolls in. This is a way weirder horse than I thought it was. |
| 2:27.0 | I mean, it's also that weird shape you mentioned, right? |
| 2:30.0 | It is, yes, but it is definitely somewhere between a trot and a canter. |
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