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The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre
The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre
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In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed Or, a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a consciousness in virtual space. Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlandos personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the hosts own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlandos brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of …