Postrat kids like to talk about “object level” but I don’t really grok that. But I like “log level” as preferred abstraction level. Very pararational. Zone of glitches, autocorrect, spooky entanglements, gremlins, alt temporalities, forensics, liminality, poop, entropic boundary
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Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty is kinda a log-level epic.
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Other examples of log-level fiction: Honey I shrunk the kids Fantastic voyage Skinny Legs and All (Tom Robbins novel) The things they carried Not an accident that these are “shrunken perspective” viewpoint works
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You want a narrative viewpoint that can zip through a world unnoticed. Something like a tracer but without a macro-imagining component. Just the tracer itself. In SF I’d make such characters sub-Planck scale
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Some good progress this week though on multitemporality, identifying log level as the right level of analysis, and red-flagging the time-perception accuracy as an unimportant cul de sac
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No. This is still in draft mode as far as longform goes
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