Complete Stories, by Rudy Rucker. Complete Stories by Rudy Rucker. ![]() Including collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Paul Di Filippo, Marc Laidlaw, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker Jr., Terry Bisson, and Eileen Gunn. Buy some of their works! Complete Stories is Copyright . The introduction and the notes to the stories describe the stories' previous publications. The original frequently asked questions for the newcomer on the popular raw diet for dogs, BARF, an acronym for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones And Raw Food. COCONUT FAT BALLS Ingredients: For the soup: 3/4 cup raw cashews, soaked; 6 cups vegetable broth, divided; 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil; 3 large cloves garlic, minced. Shona, not sure that cocoa has been officially tested but I know it was used in one of the Monash studies (where FODMAPs originated) on the low FODMAP diet part of a. Staff diet tidbits. Join the Fooducate community to eat better, lose weight, and improve your health. Last updated on November 1. Introduction. Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Enlightenment Rabies. Schr. On the whole, the later stories are better than the earlier ones, so you might do well to start reading somewhere towards the middle of this collection. Like many professions, writing is something one learns on the job. Over the years I’ve published four print anthologies of my stories: The 5. Franz Kafka (Ace Books, 1. ![]() Transreal! The big win is that, given that I’m working with an ebook, I can make make my new anthology comprehensive. Thus: Complete Stories. I first assembled this collection in 2. I expect to write a few more stories in the coming years. As time runs on, I’ll continue making new editions of my Complete Stories. Minnesota Mom of Two Diagnosed with Cancer Hours After Husband Dies From ALS: 'I'm Not Ready to Give Into It'. In this week’s roundup of health news, we’ll look at whether you need to do anything differently about your choice of bread, the place your baby sleeps, and your. Wheat is known to cause digestive problems, but by properly repairing your digestive function, you may regain your ability to eat organic, whole wheat again. Drink lots of water during the diet (but don’t go crazy). I find this helps increase my metal clarity and energy. Taubes and others recommend not starting an. ![]() Walt Whitman spent his whole life revising and expanding one single book of poetry: Leaves of Grass. Complete Stories is in some sense my final anthology. ![]() Flipping through these tales, I feel a mixture of nostalgia, pride, and embarrassment. I used to write as if women were wonderful, fascinating aliens—over the years I’ve gotten better at depicting them as people. Intoxication has remained a years- long literary obsession. My politics remain those of the hippies, punks, and grungers. But always the stories have their own wild humor and logic. I can characterize my fiction with in terms of six concepts: (1) Thought experiments, (2) Power- chords, (3) Gnarliness, (4) Wit, (5) Transrealism, and (6) Collaboration.(1) The notion of fictional thought experiments was made popular by Albert Einstein, who fueled his science speculations with so- called Gedankenexperimenten. Thought experiments are a very powerful technique of philosophical investigation. In practice, it’s intractably difficult to visualize the side effects of new technological developments. In order to tease out the subtler consequences of current trends, a complex fictional simulation is necessary; inspired narration is a more powerful tool than logical analysis. If I want to imagine, for instance, what our world would be like if ordinary objects were conscious, then the best way to make progress is to fictionally simulate a person discovering this. The kinds of thought experiments I enjoy are different in intent and in execution from merely futurological investigations. My primary goal is not to make useful predictions that businessmen can use. I’m more interested in exploring the human condition, with literary power chord standing in for archetypal psychic forces.(2) When I speak of power chords in the context of fantastic literature, I’m talking about certain classic tropes that have the visceral punch of heavy musical riffs: blaster guns, spaceships, time machines, aliens, telepathy, flying saucers, warped space, faster- than- light travel, immersive virtual reality, clones, robots, teleportation, alien- controlled pod people, endless shrinking, the shattering of planet Earth, intelligent goo, antigravity, starships, ecodisaster, pleasure- center zappers, alternate universes, nanomachines, mind viruses, higher dimensions, a cosmic computation that generates our reality, and, of course, the attack of the giant ants. When I use a power chord, I try to do something fresh with the trope, perhaps placing it into an unfamiliar context, perhaps describing it more intensely than usual, or perhaps using it for a novel thought experiment. I like it when my material takes on a life of its own. This leads to what I call the gnarly zone.(3) In short, a gnarly process is complex and unpredictable without being random. If a story hews to some very familiar pattern, it feels stale. But if absolutely anything can happen, a story becomes as unengaging as someone else’s dream. The gnarly zone is lies at the interface between logic and fantasy. I see my tales as simulated worlds in which the characters and tropes and social situations bounce off each other like eddies in a turbulent wake, like gliders in a cellular automaton graphic, like vines twisting around each other in a jungle. When I write, I like to be surprised.(4) My early mentor Robert Sheckley was a supremely witty writer. Over the years I got to spend a few golden hours in Sheckley’s presence. And I think it’s safe to say that wit, rather than mere humor, was his primary goal. Wit involves describing the world as it actually is. You experience a release of tension when you notice a glitch. Something was off- kilter, and now you see what it was. The elephant in the living room has been named. The evil spirit has been incanted. Perceiving an incongruity in our supposedly smooth- running society provokes a shock of recognition and a concomitant burst of laughter. Wit is a critical- satirical process that can be more serious than the “humorous” label suggests.(5) “Transrealism” is a word that I made up. Early on, I found that using myself and my friends as characters in my science- fiction tales appeals to me very much. My actual life is the real part, and the trans part are the cool things that happen to the characters in my science- fiction stories. In other words, I found that I could use the special effects and power chords of SF as a way to thicken and intensify my material. The tools of science fiction can be a way to add a more artistic shape to the suppressed fears and desires that you inevitably incorporate into your fiction. To my way of thinking, transrealism is a way to describe not only immediate reality, but also the higher reality in which life is embedded.(6) Regarding collaboration, note that nearly a third of the pieces in Complete Stories were written with other authors. As a practical matter, I get lonely being a writer on my own, and I welcome the chance to get into a collaborative exchange with another writer. One of the remarkable things about science- fiction writing is the level of literary collaboration that it supports. In this respect, we’re like scientists—and like musicians. Science fiction is a shared enterprise. And I’m grateful to be part of it.—Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California, 2. Table of Contents. Shop for ebook or print version of Complete Stories. Jumpin’ Jack Flash. It was a hell of a lecture. The posters had a picture of a guy thinking a thought balloon of himself thinking a thought balloon of himself thinking etcetera and ad infinitum. Jack Flash was wild about infinite regresses that term. I never could see the use of them myself. So my mind has an image of my mind which has an image of my mind and so on. To me the fact that my mind is infinite is about as significant as the fact that human bodies have ten toes. Big Mind doesn’t have anything to do with the finite- infinite distinction. And in terms of my immediate life, what counts in the Pure Land is having two minds instead of one mind. People don’t take to me, and I always have trouble keeping jobs on Earth. They were going to terminate my contract even though I’d just had a paper on Invasion of the Body Snatchers accepted by the Journal of Popular Culture. I had just gotten the bad news from my chairman at lunch time, and I’d spent the afternoon going through my second to last spore of geezel. That’s a pretty hefty dose for one sitting, so I was kind of lit when I walked into Jack’s lecture. Jack had drawn a big crowd, but they were pretty stiff. I was feeling reckless, and decided to loosen things up by laughing and stamping my feet every time Jack said, “infinity.” Before long the place was rocking. Jack likes to work a crowd; and once I’d gotten them started he kept bringing them higher. It was a pleasure to watch him. He was wearing light tan corduroys and a blue flannel Bean’s shirt. He never stopped moving except when he wanted to say something heavy. For that he would lean forward on the desk and manage to look every one of us in the eye. But mostly he’d be writing things on the board, wiping chalk dust off on his corduroys, pushing his long brown hair back from his forehead, or taking his ratty black sweater on and off. I couldn’t really tell you what the talk was about. After all, I was pretty high, and I’ve never bothered to master a lot of the standard human concepts. Roughly speaking, it seemed like Jack thought he could prove that every possible universe exists. Considering my background, you’d think I’d be interested in what he might have to say on this topic. I just wanted to lesnerize a couple of people and get the hell back to the Pure Land. Without thinking about it too hard, I suspected that most of what Jack said was wrong anyway. Quite a few people came up to him afterwards, and I stuck around. After a while it was down to just one chick talking to Jack. I walked up to join their conversation. He turned to the girl, “What do you say the three of us go get a beer?” He had already put on his brown leather jacket.“All right,” the girl said, and we started out. I’d never seen her before. She reminded me of a Mercedes- Benz. Can you leave your body?”Jack hated to answer no to a question like that, so he just shrugged. Did it ever occur to you that black holes and white holes really exist in your Mindscape?”Actually he wasn’t far off, but I wasn’t going to start blabbing everything I knew. Not yet anyway. If I played it right Jack would probably go along with me. I was sure she was already wondering how to get rid of this obvious loser, Simon Bork, so that she and Jack could really rap. But I knew Jack wanted me to stick around, and I started trying to make friends with Helen while Jack got us a pitcher. We exchanged a few listless facts about what we did for a living. I had to say something interesting.“You remind me of a Mercedes,” I blurted out finally, unable to come up with anything more abstract. Does Meat Rot In Your Colon? Beans, Grains, and Vegetables! How many times have we all heard this bunk myth repeated?“Humans can’t actually digest meat: it rots in the colon.”And its variant: “Meat takes 4- 7 days to digest, because it has to rot in your stomach first.”(Some variations on this myth claim it takes up to two months!)Like most vegetarian propaganda, it’s not just false, it’s an inversion of truth. And the reason we have a bacterial colony in our colon is because our own enzymes can’t break down everything we eat. The primary reason we need our gut bacteria is to digest the sugars, starches, and fiber—found in grains, beans, and vegetables—that our digestive enzymes can’t break down. Now what is that called, again, when food is being . Cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables. Whenever we eat grains, beans, and vegetables, we’re not digesting and absorbing much of the plant matter. Jan; 6. 4(1): 3. 7- 4. Contribution of the microflora to proteolysis in the human large intestine. Macfarlane GT, Allison C, Gibson SA, Cummings JH.“In the stomach and the proximal small bowel, the microorganisms found as normal flora are a reflection of the oral flora. Bacterial concentrations in this region are 1. In the colon, bacterial concentrations of 1. In other words, there are roughly 1. So bacterial digestion (. Mar; 5. 5(3): 6. 79- 8. Significance of microflora in proteolysis in the colon. Gibson SA, Mc. Farlan C, Hay S, Mac. Farlane GT.“Proteolytic activity was significantly greater than (P less than 0. That’s a mere 3. 4% of proteolytic activity occurring in the feces vs. So the only way that any animal can fully digest plants is for its gut bacteria to break down cellulose, and its intestines absorb the waste products. Ruminant digestive system, courtesy of the University of Minnesota. Click for article. Ruminants, including cattle, bison, deer, antelope, goats, and other red meat, have a special “extra stomach” called the rumen. That is why we can’t eat grass at all, why there is so little caloric value for us in vegetables, and why we call cellulose “insoluble fiber”: it comes straight out the back end. This fact alone proves that humans, while omnivores, are primarily carnivorous: we have a limited ability to digest some plant matter (starches and disaccharides) in order to get through bad times, but we cannot extract meaningful amounts of energy from the cellulose that forms the majority of edible plant matter, as true herbivores can.
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