ZK translation: be reborn an isometric drone

Jamie McKittrick jamiemckit at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 02:34:51 CST 2017


As in, worker drone like a bee. Mindless automaton.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P147.7-14   The guide had told us about brains preserved in insulated
> vessels. Now she added that heads, entire heads with brains intact, were
> sometimes removed from the bodies and stored separately. One day in decades
> to come the head will be grafted to a healthy nanobody.
>        And would all the revivified lives be identical, trimmed tight by
> the process itself? Die a human, be reborn an isometric drone.
>
> In what sense is the word "drone" used here?
>
>
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