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(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Book Pile

CHAPTER

What if Everything Looked the Same to You?

Jonathan Livingston Segal's new book is All the Songs. In it, he asks what if there was no biological response to attractive or unattractive people? What could language look like from an alien being which had supposedly evolved a million years far like close to perfection? And this isn't to be confused with the one direction song of a similar title where the question isWhat if I vaguely sung to whoever was listening as if I wanted to make babies in a life with them?

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