Hello! Sometimes when people say things to me, I picture their sentences diagrammed on a blackboard, with soft gossamer trails of hidden meaning streaming out beneath, like a bubble wand dipped into solution and dragged across its underbelly. We use language as a consensus layer to interface with other people's minds, but every spoken word contains a stack trace of alternate meaning. If I want to understand someone better, I just listen for the echoes in the words they express, tapping to hear the hollows, tracing with my finger the shapes of each muffled sound scrabbling around itself, then chiseling them into my mind, like a Rosetta Stone.
12: Lines and fixed points
12: Lines and fixed points
12: Lines and fixed points
Hello! Sometimes when people say things to me, I picture their sentences diagrammed on a blackboard, with soft gossamer trails of hidden meaning streaming out beneath, like a bubble wand dipped into solution and dragged across its underbelly. We use language as a consensus layer to interface with other people's minds, but every spoken word contains a stack trace of alternate meaning. If I want to understand someone better, I just listen for the echoes in the words they express, tapping to hear the hollows, tracing with my finger the shapes of each muffled sound scrabbling around itself, then chiseling them into my mind, like a Rosetta Stone.