Glossolalia or speaking in tongues, according to linguists, is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables that lack any readily comprehended meaning, in some cases as part of religious practice in which it is believed to be a divine language unknown to the speaker.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Little big man
This is a fictional story that speculates about a possible future. This story explores what it is like to be the only human on a ship in outer space. The space ship in this story is called the Sweet Gum. It is called Sweet Gum because its shape is similar to the seed pod of a tree that grows in the American South. The Sweet Gum is a mining vessel that is populated by x number of supplicant android life forms. The integrity protocols of the mining vessel's mission make allowances for one actual humanoid life form. The one actual human on board assists the android life forms in maintaining behavioral traits conducive to the tasks at hand. This one humanoid life form is the narrator of our story. The title Phrygianheir is a play on words. The play is between the word Phrygian, which is an ancient cultural region in Turkey but also a type of cap worn by those people. Eventually that cap became associated with freed slaves in Greek culture and eventually came to signify Liberty in general when associated with the French revolution. And now they use them on packs of cigarettes. So in a sense the name Phrygianheir is one who has inherited this tradition of social political and cultural transience, servitude, resistance and the subject of commodification. The word is also a play on a refrigeration appliance. In the story of the clones all the information for replicating their android DNA is kept in a fridge on the ship. Eventually as it is the only fridge on board, the whole crew uses it to store their snacks. The intro to the sitcom Odd Company opens with a shot of this fridge door being opened.This story is being told from the aggregate cascade of Mombo-x 9fu14, a file by-product of the data-grosse edict pre-post humanist era.
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