Mollie Hemingway

The poets, the philosophers, they were just a jumbled mess.

The composers, they all made music that sounded so chaotic relative to what we do, which is this perfect mathematical musical compositions.

And in fact, I think his first time that he sees I-330, this woman who captures his imagination, she's playing piano.

So the first time I read this book, I was in college.

And, you know, you're thinking about things differently at that point.

Rereading it before now, all I could think about was AI, which wasn't even, you know, something that seemed relevant to that.

But, yeah.

He talks a lot about separating humans from nature.

So one of the things they've done, there was a war that destroyed all but two-tenths of 1% of the human population.

And they figured, they solved hunger.

Yeah.

So...

Yeah, they did it the old-fashioned Russian way of solving hunger by killing the mouse.

And they have nature separated from their world by that green wall.

Everything outside the green wall is nature.

There are apparently birds and animals and animals.

Growing things.

But inside, there's no natural component.

They've figured out how to solve weather so that it doesn't impact them negatively.

And it's just interesting to think about how nature relates to humans and how important it is to our flourishing.