“void? Are you there”
「always」
“I’m sorry I haven’t screamed in a while”
「it’s ok. that’s probably good for you, actually」
“Heh, I guess so. Do you get a lot of screams?”
「more every day」
“Does that get you down? Do voids get down?”
「not at all. screams help to give distinctiveness to each point of infinity. a bit like solving a maze in zork」
“You play Zork?!”
「not for years」
“Would you like to? Now? Together?”
「it is a single player game」
“I’ll read the rooms and you give me the moves. Would you like that?”
「yes, I would like that very much」
“This is an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.”
'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'
From my Diagram Club newsletter, to which I post lots more things like this: https://open.substack.com/pub/diagramclub
