Interlinked (or Of Men and Machines)

The Baseline Test in „Blade Runner 2049” is based off the book „Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov. In Pale Fire, the fictional poet John Shade sees a tall white fountain during a near-death experience – the image’s presence would always console him. Later Shade reads about a woman in a magazine who came close to…

Lost in translation III

Bob: It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids. Charlotte: It’s scary. Bob: The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born. Charlotte: Nobody ever tells you that. Bob: Your life, as you know it… is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk,…