Non-zero sum game."
Read more Louise Banks QuotesFrom: Arrival
You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.
Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this "nonlinear orthography," which raises the question, "Is this how they think?"
And remember what happened to the Aborigines. A more advanced race nearly wiped 'em out.
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