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Through an act as simple as sweeping spiders from the corners of a room, this book explores what it means to be a creature, to have power over the world of other creatures and to be at the mercy of things inside and outside ourselves. From boneheaded thoughts about fame, narcissism and slouchy socks, to being scrubbed clean as a bone in the spiritual desert, this sci-fi meditation culminates in what it would be like to be a god abandoning a world.
I remember watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire (1973): a virtual society is created but, once entered, the reality and virtuality of the real world become more and more tenuous. Glitches become visible. The creators realize that they themselves are simulations. I was deeply into gnosticism at the time, which holds that the first creator principle is separate from the demiurge who created our world: a wayward, flawed god. Perhaps our most superficial and profound thoughts, mature and immature moments, are in a spiral with no beginning or end, and no thus no linear progression, and no point. In some ways, this book has no point. It is joy and despair, revelry, disdain and tenderness for the most base and basic human parts of us.
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