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Christian Bök: Orpheus and Eurydice S2 E8

Meditations with Zohar

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The Intimacy of Language

The two poems that I've created for this project seem to me heartbreaking there. The organism when it finds this poem implanted into it as a gene sequence, actually interprets it as a set of instructions and in response builds a protein. And the bizarre coincidence is that these two poems function in dialogue like pastoral poetry from medieval traditions of love poetry.

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