![]() ![]() PDFs of it keep popping up online and getting taken down. In a way, it’s about language and the perception of time, but what’s moving about it is the particular human situation in which he embeds his speculative ideas. However, I highly recommend the story on which it’s based, “Story of Your Life,” by Ted Chiang, first published in 1998 (and when you read it, pay attention to the verb tenses). It seems at times to want to be a Terence Malick film but misses, and it accomplishes too little in the time it occupies. Our capsule judgment is that it’s not bad, but it’s not very good either. On Friday night, a friend and I saw the new science-fiction film Arrival. Hence no brilliant, probing, and thoughtful post today-nor any other kind either, except for a few quick notes. A long writing project has occupied me for much of this weekend. ![]()
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