CYBER SUNSET: A Disjointed Conversation about Sunlight

IMAGE:  A recursive image of a star with a hazy-green atmosphere above a liquid body.

Nadya: 	Is this how memory works: imprint upon imprint until eventually our 
        reconstructions diverge significantly from the original?

Liao: 	I'm sorry – what was your question?

Nadya: 	[ignoring Liao] . . . just frames after frames of perception?

Gus: 	[on a different tangent] Is this a sunset? The sun does not "set" - it  
        continues shining whether or not we see it.

Bill: 	[half-listening to the conversation] Uh-huh, and the sky is yellow.

Gus: 	[ignoring Bill] The sun must be lonely . . .

Bill: 	[half-distractedly]  Yes, it seems the sun is yellow.



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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A recursive image and bizarre discussion about murky, inattentive impressions. 
KEYWORDS: disjointed dialogs, bizarre conversations, mechanisms of memory, 
          selective inattention,  fragmentary discussions, phagocytic pragmatics

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2002 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2023 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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