Pour soi et En soi
Pour soi et En soi
When Avi stumbles across a news tidbit making small tremors along the internet’s gossamer, he knows that this, this is his chance, and he stretches out his hands and plucks word after word from the paper-thin walls that bound him, letting streams of numbers and symbols change into something recognizable.
He - pronoun; singular; a male person or animal being discussed or last mentioned
wakes - definition 1; verb; to become roused from sleep; (often followed by up)
up - used as a function word for additional emphasis, sometimes preceded by it
.- the point or character used to mark the end of a declarative sentence, indicate an abbreviation, etc.
Rami walks through the forest toward the sea. Away, away, away.
Insufficient information. Please input data.
Open input prompt
Input prompt >> Night.
>> Street.
>> Main.
>> Red Paint.
>> Sparks.
Conclusion: Dock zone. Estimated time 9 pm to 4 am. Repair needed sector 2. Circuitry damage minor. Please refer to manual.
His feet, blistered and raw, tread across crystallized sand. A mechanical voice chimes, “Everyone is unique.”
Avi has this look on his face, almost like boredom, like sick fascination, but not quite, when he reads about the gash across his chest and visualizes wires stretched and dangling, beating currents slowly through his system. He begins to wonder about what happened in the days, months, years since he put himself to sleep, but stops himself. There’ll be time later for existential thoughts, later when he’s whole again.
Estimate time to “existential thoughts”: 32 hours 4 minutes 55 seconds … 54 … 53
Shedding any doubt like plastic skin, he wills for himself to move, 47 mph, and half-drag, half-jerks himself toward where his other half waits. 59…58…57
Rami’s eyes widen, taking in the sun, bleaching green to clouded white, like milk and paint and sheep and fill-in-the-blanks.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ {H2O + NaCl (solution)} ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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-------------------------- {silicon dioxide}----------------------------
Target here à o
[=] ## # #
[=] {wooden crossing structure => bridge, ramp, log}
[=]
# ##### # {city structure}
##### # You are hereà o ##
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Route programmed.
Avi sighs, forcing his hands push past people with care, remembering how it was to be delicate, of flesh and blood. He casts his eyes down and lets them absorb the information, drowning out the steady stream of input and output and correlations and conjecture and possibilities and eliminations with his personal Mozart playing G-B-G#-E.
Ocular information processed. Analysis complete.
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Input prompt >> open file028.jpeg
skinsnapshot531carmelcolouredhintofvein/bluewirezoomcreasehairblackr
epairedmarkIIDVzoomshiftfocusupknucklepalepeachthinbonesubstiute
2plasternotparisheavycrease…………………………………………………
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And he stops asking himself whether he was wrong in doing this. No one, especially not he, deserves this.
He feels the ocean sloughing the dead skin from his feet, hands, body, the salt streaming in, cleansing with pain. Is he in water?
He’s finally here under the sun and by the sea and he refuses to look because he doesn’t ever want to see. Instead he imagines
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Now is the end again, and this time he prays like he’s never prayed before, and he hasn’t, and plunges into the sea and drowns without drowning.
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Blue fade to Black.