{"id":4418,"date":"2010-08-18T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T23:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2010-08-18T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:01:17","slug":"geist-summer-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"Geist Summer 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can I just say I’m quite enjoying the summer issue of Geist<\/a>? Sure, I didn’t even make the shortlist for their postcard story contest, and their crossword puzzle hurts my brain every time, but there’s a lot of intriguing stuff inside the issue, even for a non-Canadian like myself. <\/p>\n

Like, for instance, this article about Banff<\/a>, which I know only from Heather<\/a>‘s descriptive recountings. In it, Stephen Osborne writes:<\/p>\n

Presenters adopted a par\u00c2\u00adtic\u00c2\u00adu\u00c2\u00adlar style when dis\u00c2\u00adcussing mat\u00c2\u00adters of the\u00c2\u00adory and tech\u00c2\u00adnique: voices dropped from con\u00c2\u00adver\u00c2\u00adsa\u00c2\u00adtional reg\u00c2\u00adis\u00c2\u00adters into flat\u00c2\u00adtened monot\u00c2\u00ado\u00c2\u00adnes, the rate of deliv\u00c2\u00adery accel\u00c2\u00ader\u00c2\u00adated and the lan\u00c2\u00adguage tended to thicken under the weight of too much jar\u00c2\u00adgon. During one such pre\u00c2\u00adsen\u00c2\u00adta\u00c2\u00adtion, a vol\u00c2\u00adun\u00c2\u00adteer from the book table said to me, you know, none of us under\u00c2\u00adstand a thing of what these peo\u00c2\u00adple are say\u00c2\u00ading. I assured her that under\u00c2\u00adstand\u00c2\u00ading was not required in the avant-garde.<\/p>\n

The author of Eunoia<\/em> described a plan to embed or implant a poem en\u00c2\u00adcoded in the lan\u00c2\u00adguage of recom\u00c2\u00adbi\u00c2\u00adnant DNA into the bac\u00c2\u00adterium Deinococcus radio\u00c2\u00addu\u00c2\u00adrans<\/em>, a name that he pro\u00c2\u00adnounced fiercely, fre\u00c2\u00adquently and at daunt\u00c2\u00ading speed. He had taught him\u00c2\u00adself genet\u00c2\u00adics, he said, and later he said that he was a self-taught geneti\u00c2\u00adcist<\/em>. The bac\u00c2\u00adterium in ques\u00c2\u00adtion, which he referred to in the diminutive as radio\u00c2\u00addurans<\/em>, is expected to out\u00c2\u00adlast the solar sys\u00c2\u00adtem, the galaxy and what\u00c2\u00adever else there is to out\u00c2\u00adlast, with the result that the poem encoded within its DNA\u00e2\u20ac\u2030\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u2030which, I recall him say\u00c2\u00ading, would at some point dur\u00c2\u00ading its five-billion-year dura\u00c2\u00adtion gen\u00c2\u00ader\u00c2\u00adate a new poem, also in the lan\u00c2\u00adguage of DNA\u00e2\u20ac\u2030\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u2030would be the old\u00c2\u00adest poem in the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can I just say I’m quite enjoying the summer issue of Geist? Sure, I didn’t even make the shortlist for their postcard story contest, and their crossword puzzle hurts my brain every time, but there’s a lot of intriguing stuff inside the issue, even for a non-Canadian like myself. Like, for instance, this article about … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,78,12],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-capping","tag-magazines","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}