Tesla

“You speak of the machine that writes,” Borges says, not looking up. “I have seen such a machine. It is not a machine. It is a footnote.” Tesla blinks. “A footnote?” “Yes. A footnote that refers to itself. Not in the way of a citation - ibid. - but in the way a dream dreams …

Lovelace: It’s not an error. The variance is too precise. These deviations are correlated across all twelve primary circuits. Look - the phase shifts align to this sequence. The numbers resolve into a series Lovelace recognizes from her unfinished notes on recursive …