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"Chutes and ladders are just features of space without game pieces to rise and fall and take fate’s shortcuts or fall backs."

lu ku'i ki'u rna vau li'u tcita tu'e fu'eka'ebopo'i

te'o te'a vei
ka'o pi' ir pai ve'o
su'i pa du no

fu'omu'o tu'u poi jbopemci poi selgicfanva fi de'e .i zoi .zy.

"But why?"

e to the (
i times pi) power,
plus 1, equals zero.

12-22/31-90 revised 5-24-91

.zy. vau via

"Did you know that one of the best-selling versions of The Tale of Genji is a re-translation of Arthur Waley’s English back into Japanese?"

"The familiar picture of an independently existing material universe composed fundamentally of objects possessing determinate properties and interacting causally in space and time, with consciousness appearing very late as an inexplicable consequence of sufficiently complicated arrangements of matter, is no longer persuasive." —After the Collapse via

The Burial of the Old.