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New meta thread of some of my more interesting prompts 1. Clockless clocks
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What is your favorite ‘clockless clock’, or way of marking time that is neither a clock (Ie artificial device specifically designed to tell time) nor a standard astronomical calendar cycle (days/week’s/month’s/seasons)? (examples: breath, trains passing by, Apple product days)
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2. Portals
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What physical embodiments of portals between worlds have been imagined in sci-fi/fantasy? My starter list: Rabbit hole (Alice) Subtle knife (dark materials) Wardrobe (Narnia) Phone booth (Doctor Who) Platform 9 3/4 (Potter) Wormhole with gate (Stargate)
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My thesis was essentially on that.
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When Am I? — thesis project in which @AbolTaabol designed a clock replacement using the smart lamp in his room he mapped the color change to the time of his rituals instead of the sun’s position in the sky e.g. yellow → purple = “stop work & read” itp.nyu.edu/thesis2020/stu
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You could write a "book" out of such tweets, re-retweeting them until you reach the most abstract root tweet of all the re-tweets. But then, you could never re-tweet that, lest the book lose any certain/planned structure... No, I think the most abstract tweet has to be terminal