read this and upvoted a while back, wanted to loop back around on it now. it's miserable. it's dismal. it's dingy and poisoned in all the best ways. the first line lodges in my head like a flechette. it makes me feel sick to my stomach the longer i read it.
i have spent many sleepless hours reading about criticality accidents, as i have mentioned before. i have thought a lot about how it must feel to have all your cells burned out by the split-second burst of neutrons and gamma rays, to fry every physical part of you with radiation and to know that the mind, the soul, and everything about who you are is encoded in that physical part as well. you captured it without ever having felt it, wrote it down, and here it is. +1
