Word: blendered
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Roberto Calasso’s first work translated into English, the brilliant Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, saw him marking out his territory as somewhere between the literary anthropology of Robert Graves’ classic The White Goddess and the mythology-blender of Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Calasso of Literature and the Gods is a little closer to Goddess than Hero, as he attempts to trace through all of Western literature, from Homer to Nabokov, a phenomenon that he defines called “absolute literature.” Absolute literature is literature...
...wait. Off in that distant time human ingenuity will save us from this molecular blender. Well, sort of. You must wait for the development of nanotechnology, basically the engineering of FriendlyTinyRobots capable of being programmed and self-duplicating. With a horde of FriendlyTinyRobots willing to scour our body's molecular nooks and crannies, repairing the damage that the crystalline Katana blades have done, thawing is no problem, and if we can solve the thawing problem (i.e. the reassembly of every cell in the body) the original cause of your death ought to be laughably easy to remedy...
...frequent dances with his microphone. Although much of the drums were synthesized at times-such as during the beginning of "Precious Declaration"-the playing of keyboards and variety of music made the sound of the five-member band different from the previous two. Songs from their newest disc, Blender, were mixed among numerous hit singles from their previous four albums, including the "The World I Know" and "December." Roland ended by telling the audience he wanted to play for them a little gospel song he wrote, and then thrilled the audience with "Shine," the hit single off Hints, Allegations...
Until then, Venter had been randomly sampling and sequencing small bits of cDNA. But one of his new recruits, Hamilton Smith, a Nobelist from Johns Hopkins', proposed a bolder approach: "shotgunning" the entire genome of an organism. The idea was dramatically simple. Using an ordinary kitchen blender, they would shatter the organism's DNA into millions of small fragments, run them through the sequencers (which can read 500 letters at a time), then reassemble them into the full genome using a high-speed computer and novel software written by in-house computer whiz Granger Sutton. By contrast, the HGP divided...
...life and limb like technographic stretchmarks, dead spaces bound up by the body's jagged fringe. These white areas are bothersome in the way unpainted canvas is bothersome. And although it is aesthetically flummoxing that two generally pleasing things to look at--portraits and maps--come out of the blender looking not quite as nice as either, beauty here is more a question of timeliness. Messing around with technology to produce art is primarily a good way to let people know what can be done, and to cultivate an appropriate degree of anxiety about what might be next...