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CONSCIOUSNESS: OVERRATED, UNDERUTILIZED and MORE THAN A LITTLE PRETENTIOUS: A Few Quick Essays About The Internet

Steven Augustine

1. MORE PROOF… BUT OF WHAT? I stumbled across this virtual review of Joshua Ferris’s new collection of stories, The Dinner Party, and couldn’t get past the first third of the review; I got stuck on the following part, which I kept re-reading with that growing (and comfortingly familiar) sense that I must be losing my mind.  I kept having to re-read: “Ferris’s new collection of short stories, The Dinner Party, continues to showcase this facility, in both the successes and failures of individual pieces. The best story in the book, “The Pilot,” offers a glimpse into the psyche of a … Continue reading CONSCIOUSNESS: OVERRATED, UNDERUTILIZED and MORE THAN A LITTLE PRETENTIOUS: A Few Quick Essays About The Internet

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ouroboros borborygmus: a short story

Steven Augustine

  1. Stock was just beginning to dwell on the fact that he’d been sitting alone in the waiting room for an improbably long while when something happened. The door to the waiting room opened and Stock walked in and grabbed an old magazine and took a seat. Stock stared at himself. It wasn’t exactly Stock but Stock at a much younger age, maybe twenty, stylish but poor. He looked relaxed and very healthy. He was sun-burnished and the smell of his health crossed the room. Stock wondered if this was his grown son. A mesmerizingly-pure and beautiful version of his … Continue reading ouroboros borborygmus: a short story

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A TECHNICAL QUESTION FOR FAITH (from the short story HOMO ZERO)

Steven Augustine

[ed.’s note: from a short story I wrote a few years ago: a philosophical question of some importance: the crucial ambiguity of verification: which interrupts any possible statement-chain in any possible proof of teleological authorship] “While everybody else my age was wrestling with the question,” he said, gesturing with a cup of coffee, “of whether there’s a God or not, I was wrestling with the much-trickier issue of how, exactly, the guy would prove it to us if he were. I mean, seriously. Think about it. Conquistadors were able to convince the Aztecs they were Gods and they were just … Continue reading A TECHNICAL QUESTION FOR FAITH (from the short story HOMO ZERO)