Fragments

Hierarchies of Code

Hierarchies of Code

  Language is a kind of code dependent upon the life rhythms of the species which originated the language. Unless...

The Rules (1)

The Rules (1)

Four kinds of relations are set as the minimum needed for modelling the function of fiction in a useful way:...

Possibilia

Possibilia

            Possibilia is the proper name given to the territories of alethic space.  It entails...

Gribble

Gribble

      Niall:    The night folds down around me. The shallow purple-black sky swirls and flickers, hums like a...

The Interview, part one

The Interview, part one

This isn’t a comprehension test sir. No, but since the second line says the same as the first, and the...

An Advisory from the Interim Government

An Advisory from the Interim Government

  If you’ve been watching television or reading the newspapers lately and feeling increasingly helpless and ill-defined, you’re certainly not...

Valquez, Reviewed in a Hotel

Valquez, Reviewed in a Hotel

‘And Valquez?’ ‘Ah valquez. Suberbly conceived, and, of course utterly laughable in apprehension.’ ‘Absolutely. He is pathos epitomised. I mean...

The kind of thing meanings are (1)

The kind of thing meanings are (1)

For the purposes of a model for fictionality propositions, meanings and concepts are deployed as abstract, dimensionless, and absolute objects....