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c682f6b
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Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
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love
autistic
lithium
lizard
speed
spider-jerusalem
politicians
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Warren Ellis |
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b5222f0
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Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.
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Warren Ellis |
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b7c8b82
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Science fiction didn't see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn't see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.
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Warren Ellis |
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af3222d
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You don't learn journalism in school, you learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun.
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Warren Ellis |
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b157f1f
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Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.
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Warren Ellis |
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3a01ea2
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Detective John Tallow, 1st Precinct." "You," said Scarly. "I hate you so much my dick is hard."
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Warren Ellis |
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f2a5003
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A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time." -Spider Jerusalem" --
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ironic
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Warren Ellis |
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f023c40
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In the long run, you see, none of that matters.
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universe
planetary
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Warren Ellis |
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1108c92
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This is the mainstream now, Mike. This is how life in America . Moment by moment, our country has grown sicker. Our borders, Mike, have come to encompass the nine circles of Hell.
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Warren Ellis |
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5d44fc3
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The most basic mobile phone is in fact a communications devices that shames all of science fiction, all the wrist radios and handheld communicators. Captain Kirk had to tune his fucking communicator and it couldn't text or take a photo that he could stick a nice Polaroid filter on. Science fiction didn't see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn't see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen b..
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Warren Ellis |
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9a0a242
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Psalm 111:10. The fear of God. The awe and dread of all that spooky action at a distance. And the Devil was understood to be less an adversary than a particularly evil employee of God. He was that bastard in the Human Resources Department who looks for ways to screw with your life. Satan was real. And he wandered around each day with an eye out for opportunities to tempt ordinary people into sinning. And God allowed it. There was presumably..
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Warren Ellis |
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Aleister Crowley told a friend he could make any random fall over without touching them. To illustrate, he walked behind a stranger for a block or so, matching his footsteps precisely to the stranger's. He then scuffed his heels, as if stumbling and falling. And the stranger fell over. The stranger had heard himself fall, and so he fell. If Facebook tells you that everything around you is sad and depressing often enough, you get sad and dep..
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Warren Ellis |
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0d3d759
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There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.
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Warren Ellis |
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5790da3
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I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It was a huge brown bastard; had a body like a turd with legs and beady black eyes full of secret rat knowledge.
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rat
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Warren Ellis |
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0579f94
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We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.
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Warren Ellis |
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56ac7be
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I know nothing about you except that I want to move through the world with you for as long as you'll let me.
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Warren Ellis |
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61a6151
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That's what you should be worrying about. Idiots with all the money, plowing it into building a thing just because they can.
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Warren Ellis |
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6d20b90
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The oaks and firs stood up as they reached the interstate and pushed on through the South West Pacific Highway to the Salmon River Highway, past places with names like Falling Creek, Tualatin, Joe Dancer Park, and Erratic Rock. Places you could walk out into and die and never be found. He could imagine them seared by sun in summer and shrouded in snow in winter. Hammered by hail the size of coins in spring and autumn, pounding flesh and sma..
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Warren Ellis |
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Science fiction didn't see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn't see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards. That, by the way, is what Steve Jobs meant when he said that iPads were magical. The central metaphor is magic. And perhaps magic seems an odd thing to bring up here, but magic and fiction are deeply entangled, and you are all ..
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Warren Ellis |
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2fda450
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The near future? The future of anything is like some massive weather system on the horizon, pushing out thunderheads all over the place, and it's impossible to predict where the lightning will strike. And in 2011 it's worse than ever.
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Warren Ellis |
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814349f
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The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.
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Warren Ellis |
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c210735
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Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.
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Warren Ellis |
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2efeede
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There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.
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Warren Ellis |
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d1012bb
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the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.
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Warren Ellis |
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ec76a33
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Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.
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the-state-of-the-nation
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Warren Ellis |
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ce30d78
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Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.
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Warren Ellis |
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208aa5f
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The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.
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Warren Ellis |
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0b63212
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There's a workaround for encroaching phone stupidity. The first thing I did when I got to my place in Austin - an apartment rented for three days over the internet - was connect the thing to wifi. Just like that, my secondary brain got all its little grey cells back. The next few days were all about scurrying from wifi field to field, trying to keep the thing on life support. It's a workaround. We live in a workaround culture. You have to j..
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Warren Ellis |
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an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.
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Warren Ellis |
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01f2ee9
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In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of.
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Warren Ellis |
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The absolute best thing anyone can do is grab desperately at the throttle. But they don't. Because it's a speeding death kaleidoscope made out of tits." Adam"
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Warren Ellis |
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6f6c66a
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The near future? Pop will go down into the tube station at midnight and have sex. Lots of sex. And all those genres I listed earlier? Every single year will generate a list of new genres like that. Then every six months. Then every month. Then every week. Pop will fuck and mutate and survive. The new sounds will be everywhere, in too many places for us to notice them all at once. A million glorious bursts of incoherent noise.
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Warren Ellis |
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ef02fc3
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Look at a Segway and tell me it's not the world's shittiest witch's broomstick. We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work.
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Warren Ellis |
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Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly;..
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Warren Ellis |
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0054803
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the future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now,
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Warren Ellis |
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b49f8fa
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Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan.
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Warren Ellis |
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85122a0
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There are people out there so heavily specialized in wearable technology that they call shirts with networked devices built into them "wearable shirts." They're so deep into their own silo of futurism that they've forgotten how shirts work."
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Warren Ellis |
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0a66147
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a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone.
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humor
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Warren Ellis |
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861db22
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I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian.
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Warren Ellis |
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d46414d
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She fixed him with a gaze that said that she had looked into the void and that she was really not impressed with it.
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Warren Ellis |
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21fdb42
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The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity.
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Warren Ellis |
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f63ddf7
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The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning.
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Warren Ellis |
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9e38b31
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We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work.
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Warren Ellis |
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ef36bce
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Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.
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Warren Ellis |