Daniel Zenon Klein

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

When I lived in Germany I had an American friend visit and seeing a German sign for "Exit" on the Autobahn ("Ausfahrt") he was like "huh huh ass fart" for the rest of his stay.

Also I had no idea Law & Order was this intricate

Sometimes I feel like a werewolf in a dream sequence

Treatable but not curable applies to a bunch of cancers I think that don't have to be life threatening! My dad has prostate cancer and the line they kept telling him was "it's the kind of cancer you die with but not of". Hoping it's something like that.

Fuck cancer

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD MOON

I just looked up how many of those the US has because I figured this must be a big percentage and... the US has around 400 of these giant flying refuel planes? Wtf?

is he a vampire

I've played a fair bit of Marathon over the weekend and I regrettably had thoughts. Had to exorcise them into a blog post so they'd leave me be:

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A stunning orange red sunset against fluffy grey clouds with a foreground of a green chaparral landscape

And you’re telling me we get one of these for free every day?

Unfortunately that means “autopsy”. It can mean section in the context of an organization but I was talking about a physical container.

Also I forgot how to say “purr” in German the other day. (“Schnurren”) what would I do without the internet? (Own a physical dictionary, probably)

A false friend in language acquisition is a pair of words that sound similar but have in fact quite different meanings. I just almost fell for one in a message to my mum. I wanted to say the English word “section” (as in a physical sub division of something) and I almost used German “Sektion”.

It is so strange to have lived entirely in one language (German) for the first two and a half decades of my life and to then switch to completely living in English. I can no longer tell when my intuition for German is right and when it is a “false friend” the other way around.

To be fair, you do talk a lot about uhhh bodies in The Stars Are Legion. Probably not in the way this kind of man would prefer though :D

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

A screaming cat

my mini schnauzer makes little sniffing noise for this purpose

Killing schoolgirls in Operation Le Epic Bacon so people forget about the dead economy and the president's pedophile best friend for ten minutes.

science

same

> @covie93.bsky.social

A grey hoodie with text which reads: “Buy a man eat fish, He day, teach fish man To a lifetime.”

Wise words

"Everyone is 12" theory going strong

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Perhaps he wasn't enough of a helicopter parent. (Am I going to hell for saying this? I probably am.)

That's it. I just wanted to send you a few words of appreciation. This will be one of those books I revisit for sure (I'm kind of thinking of the two books as one, having read them with no pause in between). Thank you! It's such beautiful work and did such things to my mind.

Phrases of your unusually beautiful prose (and poetry I guess!) linger in my mind still; from epithets like "the edge-shine of a knife" to "released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun" (goosebumps). I still wonder if Nineteen Adze knew Eight Antidote would intercept her order... aaah!

I devoured the duology in two days and I couldn't have loved it more. The prose! The linguistics! The poetry, and the world building that gave me an empire that filters conquest and belonging through the lens of literature, which I guess they all do?

@byzantienne.bsky.social Hi hello! I attempted to read "A Memory Called Empire" in 2020 and bounced off it a few chapters in. People have continued to sing its praises and I thought I'd try again, and really I want to know what was wrong with my brain in 2020 (I have a theory).

Ah yes, the environmental pollution agency