![]() ![]() The experiment begins by the construction of a rectangular arrangement of four prisms on mounting brackets so that a beam of light makes a quadrilateral loop, allowing for a clear view of the back of one’s head.īanks of actuating rods and precision tools allow for an intricate disassembly of the brain. Refilled artificial lungs are as readily available at filling stations – think air pumps in garage forecourts - and it is at one of these stations that he hears of something that he decides to investigate (as one does) by way of open surgery on its own brain. The cyborg narrator, a student of his beings’ anatomy, knows the physical borders of his hermetically sealed world for he has travelled to its edge and seen the enclosing wall of solid chromium. The titular tale in Ted Chiang’s second collection of short stories, The Exhalation, is written with a pictorial clarity that cannot fail to engage the reader. ![]()
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