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Jonathan Lovelace

Jonathan Lovelace

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Jonathan Lovelace
Jonathan Lovelace
Oct 13, 2015 · 11 min read

I’m wearing a skirt to school. First day.

Walden haunts my education like a friendly ghost. My teachers take the slightest pretense to assign it. In Senior Project 2, we are reading it as inspiration for our own “lived experiments.”

Jonathan Lovelace
Jonathan Lovelace
Oct 11, 2015 · 2 min read

Material Boy

The coffee mug attacked me, so I ran away screaming. Coffee mugs get grouchy with age, but the screaming mortifies them. Once it had settled down I approached, quietly, not trying to sneak, but avoiding sudden movements.

Jonathan Lovelace
Jonathan Lovelace
Oct 10, 2015 · 5 min read

So they printed the copy of me, without the genetic abnormality. I lay in the bed, under constant scan. It accumulated in the tray next to me, molecule by molecule, or however they do it, till it was a he, till he was me.

A little taller. The limbs not stunted, the muscles not atrophied, the cells not set to explode decades…