It's late and I'm tired. Here is the new DRAFT epilogue of Ra, featuring foreshadowed space capsule window-breaking action https://qntm.org/files/ra/end2/nonlocal.html … Less confident about this one than any of the other chapters. The last ~300 words are in a lot of flux and could be removed entirely
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This thing consumes too much psychological overhead. I need it to be done. Had very similar sensations when I was originally trying to end it
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"There Is No Antimemetics Division" went better I think because it was deliberately time-boxed to one year
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The observer effect is when scintillatingly obvious problems with your writing are impossible to perceive until the instant that you make that writing visible to other people
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-it took me a couple rereads to reach exa's revelations- fine ofc, but if you want ra v2 to be immediately obvious it might not be? -"conventional stupidmetal" / "an actual God-damned cathode ray tube" = extremely good; i love how well your writing sets the mood and scene!
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-missed the last chapter, but laura's laments to natalie are bittersweet- she's so close and yet so far. i've loved natalie in these last chapters too; she's a fascinating character!
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