"Bök aspires to create a poem enciphered into DNA that will replicate within an organism until the end of time"
Apart from the bioengineering there is "a pair of mutually-enciphered sonnets, ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Eurydice,’ so that either poem can be translated as the other using a cipher he called ‘ANY-THE’—so, “oh stay / my lyre” in ‘Orpheus’ becomes “in fate / we rely” in Eurydice’s corresponding lament." [1]
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 13.2 ms ] threadApart from the bioengineering there is "a pair of mutually-enciphered sonnets, ‘Orpheus’ and ‘Eurydice,’ so that either poem can be translated as the other using a cipher he called ‘ANY-THE’—so, “oh stay / my lyre” in ‘Orpheus’ becomes “in fate / we rely” in Eurydice’s corresponding lament." [1]
I found this just mind blowing.
[1] https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-deep-future-david-farri...