Status Updates From A Particle of Dread

"ORACLE: The whole city went back to being what it had always been—just a place where people came and went; births, lives, deaths. On the surface they seemed returned to health and self-confidence, but a distant memory still persisted, a shadow that never left. Something had been torn apart from the inside out. A ghost of something close at hand yet far enough away and so terrible as to pretend it never happened."

"Why they keep coming to me is a mystery, tell the truth. Begging on their hands and knees for the truth. As though it were hidden somehow. Smacks them night and day directly in the face—yet they come to me, asking for it. Why? I tell them no different than what they already suspect. They cringe when they hear it, but all the while they've known. That’s the part that baffles me. They already know."

"Yes! Exactly. That’s the whole question, isn’t it? Who is he?
MANIAC: Little do you realize— Have you any idea whatsoever who you're dealing with? Where I come from? My powerful lineage? Passed you by like dust in the rearview mirror, didn’t it! Dust! Well, just remember one thing: I am not anonymous. | am not going to just crumble away into oblivion. I will live forever! Don’t forget that."
lol. Sure!

What the fuck did the writers working at the Santa Fe Institute know, like genuinely, they're all writing about the same thing

Aw man, and guess the place where Sam Shepard wrote this play

odd, disjointed