'I don't know why more people don't do this,' I said, striking up a conversation.
'Do what?'
'You know, get drunk. Sit on a park bench. It seems like a good way to solve problems.'
'Are you taking the piss, fella?'
'No.…
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Sound of A Truth Hitting A Lie
'Are we going to have sex?'
She laughed some more. Laughter, I realised, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie. Humans existed inside their own delusions and laughing was a way out - the only possible bridge they had between…
Saturday, March 26, 2016
It Could Only be Caught by Letting Go
'I love you,' she said.
And I knew the point of love right then.
The point of love was to help you survive.
The point was also to forget meaning. To stop looking and start living. The meaning was to hold the hand of someone you…
Sunday, March 20, 2016
The Luck That Brought That Person There
You see, when you looked at a human's face, you had to comprehend the luck that brought that person there. Isobel Martin has a total of 150,000 generations before her, and that only includes the humans. That was 150,000 increasingly unlikely…
Tested Fermentation
I hadn't tried wine before so I said yes, as it really did seem to be very revered substance. It was a mild night so Isobel poured me a glass and we sat outside in the garden. Newton decided to stay indoors. I looked at the transparent yellow…
They Only Had Saturdays
Belonging as I did to a species which had only ever really known one day, there was initially something quite exciting about having any kind of rhythm at all. But now I was stuck here for good I began to resent humans lack of imagination. I…
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Everything was Impossible
You are not dead. Gulliver, you are not dead.
I kept at it, because I knew what life was, I understood its nature, its character, it stubborn insistence.
Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to…
It Made No Sense
And hope was often irrational. It made no sense. If it had made sense it would have been called, well, sense . The other thing about hope was that it took effort, and I had never been used to effort. At home, nothing had been an effort. That…
Sunday, March 13, 2016
The Possibility of Pain is Where Love Stems From
'Listen,' I found myself saying, 'he is going to have to find his own way, to make his own mistakes.'
'We need to find out who did that to him, Andrew. That's what we need to do. People can't just go around inflicting violence on human…
It Warms Your Brain
I was not exactly difficult to make human students a mathematics laugh. Indeed, I had never met a sub-category of life form so desperate to laugh - but still, it felt good. For a few brief moments, it even felt slightly more than good.
…
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Humans Don't Actually Like to Win
Luckily for Professor Andrew Martin, the football team he supported was Cambridge United, one of those which successfully avoided the perils and existential trauma of victory. To support Cambridge United, I discovered, was to support the idea…
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Try not to Understand So Much, and Accept Some More
'We've lost him,' she said. It took me moment to realise she was talking about Gulliver.
'Well,' I said, 'maybe we just have to accept him as he is, even if he's different to what we've known.'
'I just don't understand him. You know,…
Make It Even Better
It's BIG! It's STRONG! It's AWESOMERIFIC!
But Rex wrecks it anyway.
EVERYONE is upset.
Even Rex.
... ...
So they all help build something new.
And it turns out that Rex is a big help.
He doesn't wreck anything.
Not…
Saturday, March 5, 2016
The Language of Frowns
'Oh yes,' I said, faking it. 'Of course. Maggie.'
Then she raised her eyebrows at me. It meant something, clearly, but I had no idea what. It was frustrating. You see, the Language of Words was only one of the human languages. There were…
The Mental and the Physical
'You see, as you no doubt know, humans are still at the point in their development where they see a strong difference between the mental and the physical within the same body . They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't…
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