human_blood.txt
| human_blood.txt | |
|---|---|
| Source: | lit_arch |
| Date: | 1872 CE |
| Area: | Star World A |
human_blood.txt is a text document stored in terminal A08 in Star World A.
Contents
It is said by some that our blood is composed of infinite living agents which go up and down the highways and byways of our bodies as people in the streets of a city. &/Ecc1 41 6E 64 20 74 68 65 20 57 6F 72 64 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. function(#7761 7320 6D61 6465 20 66 6C 65 73 68
) And the sleep of the town, how life-like! with its change in the circulation.
[BUTLER, SAMUEL]
We are misled by considering any complicated machine as a single thing; in truth it is a city or society, each member of which was bred truly after its kind.
Notes
- The primary text comes from Samuel Butler's 1872 novel, Erewhon; or, Over the Range. More specifically, it is a passage taken from "Chapter 24: The Machines".
- The encrypted text ("And the Word was made flesh" when assembled) comes from John 1:14 from the King James Bible:
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.