{"id":10607,"date":"2020-04-27T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2020-04-26T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:31:25","slug":"transcription-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10607","title":{"rendered":"Transcription Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1280px-NGC_3372a-full-1024x496.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10609\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1280px-NGC_3372a-full-1024x496.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1280px-NGC_3372a-full-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1280px-NGC_3372a-full-768x372.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1280px-NGC_3372a-full.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI\/AURA); credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO\/AURA\/NSF\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2007\/16\/image\/a\/\">http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2007\/16\/image\/a\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katherine Inskip<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"arial\">The sounds, the lights, the circles on the plinth,\nthe holographic sparkles in the pause\nbetween destructive read-out's\u00c2\u00a0<em>start\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>and\u00c2\u00a0<em>send<\/em>?\nThey're there for no-one's benefit but yours.\nA sleight-of-mind that draws the eye away --\nlike oxygen on tap to calm the doomed --\nthey do their work efficiently and well,\nand no-one thinks to question what\u00c2\u00a0<em>I<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0do.\n\nCoordinates are programmed in advance.\nThe airlock doors are tested on the hour,\nand climate, pressure, atmospheric mix,\nthe vents and drains, the maser-beam array.\nYou trust the databanks that store your soul,\nthat lase you through the mazed and empty dark,\nthen from those exabytes of vacuum, weave\nyour new and unadulterated self.\n\nBehind my screen, I wave you on and in\nand reassure the rookies as I can.\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s safe, well tried and tested. Then, the lie:\nyou shall not feel the moment when you die.\n\nThe sounds, the lights, the circles on the plinth,\nmy hollow-hearted witness through the cams,\nbetween constructive write-out's\u00c2\u00a0<em>start<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<em>end<\/em>:\nthe souls that wear your bodies are not yours....\n\nI make the call, unleash the lethal flames\nthat cleanse abhorrent spirits from our realm.\nThey do my work efficiently and well\nand no one asks what happens in their death.\nRedundancy is programmed at the core.\nAnother airlock test is scheduled in.\nThe vents are flushed, the atmosphere restored,\nand once it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all reset we'll try again.\n\nAcross the frothing turbulence of space\nyou trust your soul to ride coherent light\nand hope the quantum noise of all your dreams\nwill be enough to bring you back to life.\n\nBehind the scenes, we plausibly deny\nour tech-speak claiming\u00c2\u00a0<em>'normal, small delays'<\/em>.\nThough all's scoured clean where corpses used to lie,\nI can't un-see the moments when you die.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Inskip The sounds, the lights, the circles on the plinth, the holographic sparkles in the pause between destructive read-out&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0start\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0send? 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A sleight-of-mind that draws the eye away &#8212; like oxygen on tap to calm the doomed &#8212; they do their work efficiently and well, and no-one thinks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10617,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions\/10617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}