MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Borges

  • The Palimpsest Engine

    The old man, who preferred the anonymity of shadows, sat at the head of the polished mahogany table. His eyes, still sharp beneath the cataract veil of age, studied the young man across from him, a temporal archaeologist by reputation, a skeptic by demeanor. In the room, the air was thick with the must of…

  • Checkpoint

    The agent crouched low in the alley, the flickering neon lights jerking like a mind caught in a seizure. Shadows danced on the walls, erratic as neurons firing in a dying brain. The Interzone hummed with the static of fractured realities, a buzz that bled through everything—glitching, fraying, as bits of half-thoughts and lost memories…

  • The City of Ten Thousand Doors

    The room has been thick with smoke, curling in lazy rings under the ceiling fans, the walls stained amber in the dim light. Tangiers has pulsed outside, the city flickering in neon, shadows shifting like restless ghosts. In the corner, beneath a cracked light, the boss has leaned back in his chair—Moroccan leather, worn with…

  • Tower Of Babel

    The Tower of Babel was humanity’s first great technological project—a monolithic structure reaching upward, striving not merely to defy the heavens but to commune with the divine. It was a collective undertaking, a shared aspiration to transcend the limitations of mortality and scatterings of difference, an effort to collapse the space between humanity and God.…

  • The Tower

    Act I: The Creation Ennio leaned over the glowing holographic drafting table, his fingers tracing the edges of a spiraling design that floated midair. In the dim light of his studio, the city outside shimmered like a restless constellation, its towers clawing at the sky in jagged competition. His studio, a sleek capsule perched above…