Monica Byrne: A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram
Monica Byrne: Một viễn cảnh tình yêu từ bức ảnh toàn ký 318 tuổi đời
Novelist, writer, culture critic and playwright Monica Byrne thinks that there's an infinite number of stories to tell, and she intends to tell as many as she can. Full bio
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and trust that you're there.
in the sand in front of me
and look like I'm floating in midair.
where your stage used to be.
is a creator's worst enemy.
her to design something
in 23rd-century Cairo.
that another resident left behind.
creation needs constraint."
about my greatest discovery.
has been eternal life,
that your research will pay off.
is now 432 years,
the human lifespan indefinitely.
where we'll be content.
the longer we want to live,
take out a boat on Europa
all over the planet,
that you can stay and visit
where there's just one songwriter
where there's no one
of touching your foot to sand
in the Northeast.
with my naked eye.
and Ramachandran on the Equator.
each other in Azadi Square,
or introducing herself or anything,
we didn't just pass through each other?"
"Who the hell are you?"
between elementary particles
that also has the properties of mass,
"I thought you'd say that.
so that particles have mass.
each other at the speed of light
climbing up into a mountain range together
constellations of words
as soon as we made them,
and go on to the next thing, on and up.
was like we were always making bread,
adding in a little more flour
Navid's obsession was touch.
down over my face so slowly
the difference between her body and mine.
and dig her shoulder into mine
this feel so good?"
for her facetious question,
its constraints,
the future is going to be like
humans could freeze themselves
humans could replace organs
is the only place people live.
people come to die.
what everyone does,
and send her to Earth,
would have to look at her
or think about her and her ...
her actual physical body.
was fascinated by it,
day by day, independent of her will.
just before we left, said,
like you think your love is that special."
that Navid said to me
is subject to entropy.
in this universe without mass.
where the Higgs field was altered.
subatomic movements in my body
was to create a coil dimension
in which time moved infinitely slower,
to move in normal time.
in our universe as a hologram --
almost normally to all eyes,
Navid loved most,
in blue and violet blooms on the insides,
and further apart,
only because it ends.
they allow perfect freedom.
here this morning.
who passed by what it felt like,
like melted butter.
but the space you give me.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Monica Byrne - Author and playwrightNovelist, writer, culture critic and playwright Monica Byrne thinks that there's an infinite number of stories to tell, and she intends to tell as many as she can.
Why you should listen
Novelist, writer, culture critic and playwright Monica Byrne deftly avoids the traps of conventional fiction by inventing mold-breaking characters who express themselves in surprising ways. Her first novel, The Girl in the Road, has garnered acclaim both inside and outside the spheres of science fiction.
In addition to her work on her new novel The Actual Star, Byrne is a resident playwright at Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern in Durham, NC. Her story "Blue Nowruz" was commissioned for TED2015 by Neil Gaiman. She holds degrees in biochemistry from MIT and Wellesley.
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