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coalsenats  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 8th Occasional Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately

    SeedCorp was the lunar sponsor that nite. The immense lunar projector on far-off Fuji beamed AdV after AdV onto the moon's face: tomatoes big as babies, creamy cauliflower cubes, holeless lotus roots. Speech bubbles ballooned from SeedCorp's logoman's juicy mouth, guaranteeing that his products were 100 percent genomically modified.

    Descending, the elderly taxi driver spoke of his boyhood in a distant conurb called Mumbai, now deadlanded, when the moon was always naked. Hae-Joo said an AdVless moon would freak him out.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas