Scene.
Bystander: "Oh my god!"
(nearly whispering) "oh my god"
Fireman (shouting): "Is everyone off the bridge?"
(into a walkie-talkie): "South-east pillar shows significant damage. South-east pillar mostly strong. Bridge cable broken in the 3rd segment."
(looks around, shouts): "Where's the engineer? God damnit, WHERE'S THE FUCKING ENGINEER STAYING‽"
A baby-blue ferrari with a flamingo pattern screeches and halts before the crowd. Out gets a tall, muscular man wearing pit vipers and a suit.
Perhaps a being left to the imagination thing as well? The author can’t say what it was like, before the collapse, because that pins it down to something specific and small; only that it was grand.
Oh, just a casual warning: I reserve my right to just go full r-word mode under this pseudonym.
You might want to model me as if I could tomorrow write a thing that violates ~all taboos of WEIRD societies (and potentially other societies as well).
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Some thoughts on extending the Thiel classification by a third axis: https://niplav.github.io/qualia
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