This is just so typical of you, Alwin, to be in love with a giant ass. - Rudy Rucker

This provender was at a double remove from reality; it was artificially made food that had been further treated in an attempt to make it healthy.

Although my mood swings were the logical and deterministic results of my inputs, they were dismayingly hard for me to foresee, let alone control.

There are many possible realities, infinitely many. Yet most of them are not . . . alive. Most of them are like books that no one ever actually wrote. A group-mind, like humanity's, lights up one given world. What makes this world different from some ghostly alternative universe is that we actually live here.