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Band II · This week
The Society

Six members, your equal, this week.

No photographs are exchanged until the third letter.

C
IQ 138
Lisbon · 29

Calliope

Cellist & topology PhD

Currently reading
Italo Calvino — Cosmicomics
A question I'm sitting with —
"Whether beauty is just the most efficient compression of truth."
Curated · introductions next week
A
IQ 144
Berlin · 33

Atlas

Cryptographer, ex-CERN

Currently reading
Borges — Labyrinths
I will lose an argument about —
"Whether a chess engine can be said to feel surprise. (I'll lose, but I'm right.)"
Curated · introductions next week
M
IQ 141
Brooklyn · 27

Marguerite

Playwright & game theorist

Currently reading
Le Guin — The Dispossessed
On a perfect Sunday —
"Three espressos, one cryptic crossword, one regrettable second bottle of wine."
Curated · introductions next week
T
IQ 139
Kyoto · 31

Theo

Architect of small libraries

Currently reading
Tanizaki — In Praise of Shadows
An unpopular opinion —
"Most ambition is just unprocessed boredom in a nicer jacket."
Curated · introductions next week
V
IQ 146
Edinburgh · 30

Vera

Neurosurgeon, amateur lutenist

Currently reading
Wittgenstein — Tractatus
I'd like to be asked —
"Not what I do, but what I'd still do if no one were watching."
Curated · introductions next week
S
IQ 137
Mexico City · 35

Soren

Documentary filmmaker

Currently reading
Bolaño — 2666
The last thing that surprised me —
"A pigeon, in the Zócalo, that clearly understood the bus schedule."
Curated · introductions next week

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