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"Bök aspires to create a poem enciphered into DNA that will replicate within an organism until the end of time" Apart from the bioengineering there is "a pair
by vsundar 5y ago
"Bök aspires to create a poem enciphered into DNA that will replicate within an organism until the end of time"
Apart from the bioengineering there is "a pair of mutually-enciphered sonnets, ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Eurydice,’ so that either poem can be translated as the other using a cipher he called ‘ANY-THE’—so, “oh stay / my lyre” in ‘Orpheus’ becomes “in fate / we rely” in Eurydice’s corresponding lament." [1]
I found this just mind blowing.
[1] https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-deep-future-david-farrier/ https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-deep-future-david-farri...