Twilight Mirage 14: The Value of Distance
Friends at the Table
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🗓️ 29 September 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
With their belongings stored in the Old Gold Graduate Club & Privacy, the Myriad crew pursue one of their mission's core goals: securing the spread of the Fleet's mesh throughout the planetary civilizations. After getting the rundown on the Crown of Glass from three of its most ardent defenders, Even Gardner begins preliminary negotiations. Meanwhile, Echo Reverie is introduced to a startling technology, Grand Magnificent is introduced to one of the most powerful people Quire, and Gig Kep-Hart is introduced to a planetary delicacy.*
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This week on Friends at the Table: The Value of Distance
The Remaining Records of Curiosity // Reference Code: V-Qu75-57-QGB
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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 133. |
| 0:07.0 | Question for you, primary. What do you think of as foundational to the experience of being you? |
| 0:20.0 | I don't mean identity or preference. I don't mean your history. I mean as a being who lives and who understands the world around you, what's first? |
| 0:30.0 | What's the thing that would be left if you removed everything else? |
| 0:35.0 | Taste, knowledge, the feeling of touch. |
| 0:39.0 | What's your canvas, primary? |
| 0:42.0 | For me, well, I think it's different for different beings and mine, it's data. |
| 0:48.0 | I can't, I, I can't imagine I, can't I see I can't do it I'm just I guess I'm data all the way down |
| 1:01.0 | recursive bits of information, referencing themselves so often and with such complexity |
| 1:07.6 | compiled into a shape just so that a person emerges. |
| 1:12.4 | But I am still a person I don't see the world the way you do primary or the way that artist down there does |
| 1:18.4 | I don't have his vision or the soldier's sense of space I can can broadcast obviously, but not the way that guy with the |
| 1:25.1 | I can. And I couldn't be further away from the person who guides and protects that whole group. |
| 1:30.0 | But we're all people. That only opens up a new question though. Each of our |
| 1:37.2 | paintings is different. Everyone is captured in a different medium and all of |
| 1:41.7 | our canvases diverge. But we're still all artwork. |
| 1:46.3 | Doesn't that mean that there's something between us in common, something that ties |
| 1:51.2 | everyone together? What might that? something that thing together. |
| 1:54.0 | What might that thing be primary? |
| 1:57.0 | And what do we owe to it? you're going to. And then she walks up to the front door and there's a there's like a |
| 2:18.4 | a guard there by not a bodyguard but like a bouncer who she says like they're guests of the doion and the guard like I was like okay and and let's y'all in. |
| 2:33.0 | Um, hey, everybody seems annoyed at us. |
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