Zara Khan

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The premise of scrapism is that everything we need to know about power is online, hiding in plain sight.
Scrapism
in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky.
"The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft
It is not a very romantic story, but it is my story.
The-Paper-Menagerie+by+Ken+Liu.pdf
A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion. Of course maybe our theory is wrong. Maybe Time can't be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in little subtle ways. A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in farflung countries. Something much more subtle, like that. Perhaps only a soft breath, a whisper, a hair, pollen on the air, such a slight, slight change that unless you looked close you wouldn't see i…
ASoundofThunder.pdf
High up in their remote aeries these monks had been patiently at work, generation after generation, compiling their lists of meaningless words. Was there any limit to the follies of mankind? Still, he must give no hint of his inner thoughts. The customer was always right....
Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God