The texture of their second tongue will not be the same as the first

October 18, 2016 6:25 AM

North Of Reality is a fiction website and twitter account featuring many worlds, copious annotations, and A Menu or Two.
posted by Potomac Avenue (5 comments total)

Very inventive stuff and his cryptofiction ploy is genius (apparently profitable as well). His nom de plume Aramchek is seemingly from Philip K. Dick...
posted by jim in austin at 7:30 AM on October 18, 2016

I'm enjoying this, thanks Potomac Avenue. The interconnectedness of it all adds to the effect, I think. I too was impressed by the idea of cryptofiction.
posted by misteraitch at 7:35 AM on October 18, 2016

That is not what a library killswitch does, my friends. Pray to whatever gods you like that you never learn the true purpose, or how librarians are trained to use the device.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:36 AM on October 18, 2016 [3 favorites]

I might take up writing under the pen name "Northo Freality"
posted by chavenet at 7:41 AM on October 18, 2016 [1 favorite]

I love the one about the paisley. I spent ages trying to find this place again after it was mentioned on mefi before (I eventually did). Neat.
posted by lokta at 3:42 AM on October 19, 2016