Code-X (54)
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March 16, 2015
Call this code: Black Monolith.
Definition: A single, upright, intractably unique object — of an ebon hue — posed against a bleak, inhospitable landscape… or emerging from an inky void.
Notes on this code: When a group of hominids, humankind’s prehistoric evolutionary predecessors, discover a monolith (the ultimate black box technology) in Africa’s Olduvai Gorge, at the beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, they shriek and jump, and approach it with cringing reverence. You get the point, right?
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