tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post2449529492293307497..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: A Product I Would BuyMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-10133508736251089622010-02-09T10:47:45.814-08:002010-02-09T10:47:45.814-08:00There's a New Wave story in that, David. Thou...There's a New Wave story in that, David. Though perhaps it would be best as a collaboration between Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-12313498652271417132010-02-09T09:48:36.490-08:002010-02-09T09:48:36.490-08:00I'd need the opposite, an ego-inflater. And t...I'd need the opposite, an ego-inflater. And then, when that got out of control, I'd need the ego-reducer. And soon enough I'd be going on inflation-reduction cycles like a juicing bodybuilder until my explicit self-esteem grew in to a narcissistic bulk, big but flabby in all the wrong places, within which my diseased and weakened implicit self-esteem might fail catastrophically at any moment.David Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09983230505509685792noreply@blogger.com