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“ One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes. ”

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But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

~ Scarlett Thomas

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

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I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.

~ Scarlett Thomas