ZK translation: be reborn an isometric drone

[Mike Jing]

Mindless automaton is what I have always thought it meant, but apparently
it's not (explicitly) in the dictionary.

>From the OED:

1. The male of the honey-bee. It is a non-worker, its function being to
impregnate the queen-bee.

2. fig.
 a. A non-worker; a lazy idler, a sluggard.
 b. A pilotless aircraft or missile directed by remote control. Also attrib.


On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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