## Metadata - Author: [[Ted Chiang]] - Full Title: Stories of Your Life and Others - Category: #books ## Highlights - Before I learned how to think in Heptapod B, my memories grew like a column of cigarette ash, laid down by the infinitesimal sliver of combustion that was my consciousness, marking the sequential present. ([Location 2335](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0048EKOP0&location=2335))