Gary explains the principle to Louise, giving the example of the refraction of light, and that light will always take the fastest possible route. Little progress is made, until a presentation of Fermat's Principle of Least Time is given. Louise concludes that, because their speech and writing are unrelated, the heptapods have two languages, which she calls Heptapod A ( speech) and Heptapod B ( writing).Īttempts are also made to establish heptapod terminology in physics.
She finds their writing to be chains of semagrams on a two-dimensional surface in no linear sequence, and semasiographic, having no reference to speech. In an attempt to learn their language, Louise begins by associating objects and gestures with sounds the aliens make, which reveals a language with free word order and many levels of center-embedded clauses. They make contact with two heptapods they nickname Flapper and Raspberry. Army to communicate with the aliens, and are assigned to one of nine looking glass sites in the US. Dubbed "looking glasses", they are audiovisual links to the aliens in orbit, who are called heptapods for their seven-limbed radially symmetrical appearance. The aliens arrive in spaceships and enter Earth's orbit 112 devices resembling large semi-circular mirrors appear at sites across the globe. Addressed to her daughter, the story alternates between recounting the past: the coming of the aliens and the deciphering of their language and remembering the future: what will happen to her preborn daughter as she grows up, and the daughter's untimely death. Louise Banks the day her daughter is conceived. "Story of Your Life" is narrated by linguist Dr. I loved this story, it raises so may interesting philosophical questions!
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