Hinterlands' is a William Gibson short story about humans taking a blind space jump called The Highway. They return either dead or insane, many times with nothing to show for it, but occasionally with a fragment of information offering a deeper understanding of reality. The story establishes our known reality as a backwater desperate for these small enlightenments.
lyrics
a crack in the curtain
the vastness of reality
the crushing weight of open space
my fragile mind
to see just a glimpse of the light
the splitting of the fabric of consciousness
the opening to the absence of thought
the highway
we are drawn to the depths
the whispers from the highway
we are the desperate poets
forcing together the symbols
the fragments of truth
we build the language of reality
we are the hinterlands.
we are waiting for the whispers of the highway.
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