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Memories, Dreams, Reflections (German: Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken) is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …
(Which one of them had she fucked, last night? Which one of them had brought a long that strange, lovely graphic story with lines like it's precious but it's not a memory and I'm everything you need?)
(Did she really want to know? Probably not.)
— A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #2) (Page 384)
Ok the sequel is nowhere near as enjoyable in these matters as the previous installation but it is kind of funny that Three Seagrass is panicking over whether or not she fucked her girlfriend's headmate or not because Mahit is being insufferably egocentric and uncommunicative about her plurality
Ok the sequel is nowhere near as enjoyable in these matters as the previous installation but it is kind of funny that Three Seagrass is panicking over whether or not she fucked her girlfriend's headmate or not because Mahit is being insufferably egocentric and uncommunicative about her plurality
The unofficial English translation of Tiqqun, Organe conscient du Parti Imaginaire: Exercices de Métaphysique Critique …
Too many continentalisms for me to follow
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …
There would be no constellation of endocrine response and continuity of memory that bore a single bit of resemblance to Mahit Dzmare.
— A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #2) (Page 85)
It's so awesome that this is somehow the best theory of consciousness Lsel society has been able to come up with, and Mahit doesn't even manage to consistently apply it to herself and headmates.
It's so awesome that this is somehow the best theory of consciousness Lsel society has been able to come up with, and Mahit doesn't even manage to consistently apply it to herself and headmates.
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …
Yskandr was chimerical, slippery; an imago wasn't really a separate person, but sometimes, sometimes Mahit felt like she was sharing herself with a possessing, secretive alien.
— A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #2) (Page 80)
The thing this series gets so right (probably accidentally—I think Mahit's and Lsel society's view on the subject reflect authorial ignorance) about the plural experience is its protagonist will repeatedly have the most blatantly more-than-one experiences imaginable, and then think things like this.
The thing this series gets so right (probably accidentally—I think Mahit's and Lsel society's view on the subject reflect authorial ignorance) about the plural experience is its protagonist will repeatedly have the most blatantly more-than-one experiences imaginable, and then think things like this.
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
Three Seagrass asked, quietly, "Are you still you? I... Can I talk to him? Is that a possible thing?"
"I'm me," Mahit said. "I've got continuity of memory and continuity of endocrine response, so I'm as me as I am going to get. It's not—a second person, inside me. It's me, with adjustments."
<We can talk to her if you'd like,> Yskandr whispered inside her skull.
We are talking to her, Yskandr.
— A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #1) (Page 362)
Infuriating! An entire society of plurals suffering from host syndrome! Awful!
The unofficial English translation of Tiqqun, Organe conscient du Parti Imaginaire: Exercices de Métaphysique Critique …
Oh my god, this is nearly impossible to follow!
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
Content warning spoiler
Laughing inside one's own mind is uncomfortable, Mahit realizes as she does it, or maybe what's uncomfortable is trying to fit three minds into one mind, and she/they are going to break apart right along the fault line where the other two are too much alike and she is . . . not
— A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #1) (Page 340)
It's okay Mahit. There are trans women with several Homuras and others in their head. I'm sure you can handle just two Yskandrs!
