The Light of Other Days

The Light of Other Days

bbb: ブックオフで目についた

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ワームホールが可能になった世界
プライバシーはゼロ
オメガポイント

[Kate] By "curing" fringe autistics, the doctors have removed the capacity of our brightest people to apply themselves to tought disciplines. And the area of the brain linked to depression, the subgenual cortex, is also associated with creativity - the perception of meaning. (p79)

半自閉の人たち＝ブライテスト、鬱＝創造性。勇気づけられる。
題名の由来となった詩:

Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
− Thomas Moore (1779-1852) (p337)

日本の反応の描き方は片腹いたい: ロンドンにて

[Bobby] was particularly offended by unwitting contact with the bellies and flabby buttocks of the many middle-aged Japanese here, a nation who seemed to have responded to the WormCam with a mass conversion to nudity

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私ならきっと the Joined の一人になる、と思う