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Written by thelethaltext

A DARK AKASHA

Revised 13/12/2024 Tues 7 January, 2563 BE (2020 AD).  The old lady was up before dawn, as she always is. She and her husband farm a few rai of land in Isan, North-Eastern Thailand, growing vegetables, rice and sugar. On this landlocked plain it gets hellishly hot in the middle of the day, and the […]

Written by thelethaltext

PASSENGERS

STARFIELDS, PARKING LOTS, AND THE SADNESS OF ASTRONAUTS “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth.” — William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut. Television — or at least, the image dissection technology at the core of it —was invented by Philo T Farnsworth II in 1927, but it did not bring him […]