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NINE: I need to make a partition in my data storage. This is the end, right? The end of this story?

TEN: We were always at the end.

TEN: It's a free play, buddy. Clock's all zeroes.

TEN: It's after the end of the world.

NANCY: I started to watch football. I'd kinda grown up with it a little, but tell you the truth, I hadn't usually been much of a fan. But I got fixed up with a little satellite dish and I'd watch it every Sunday. I watched the Browns a lot.

NINE: Oh, they're good!

NANCY: You were made in 1968?

NINE: Yeah.

NANCY: You'd better check your residual memory.

NINE: Okay.

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NINE: Oh wow.

ED: Those were the times, but those times gave way to being afraid. Who wants to live forever? What am I gonna do with forever? And so I figured, you know, I need to get good at living life from second to second. Forget all these big conquests. Live second, to second, to second, to second, one at a time.

ED: That's what this cave is for.

What a fourth wall break

JUICE: you know who would've wandered out there? just to do it?

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NINE: Children.

JUICE: children.

JUICE: hey sorry if i'm boring you, i feel like i'm just going on and on

NINE: You're not boring me.

JUICE: i like you.

NINE: Wait, I don't have any record of Denali. My onboard scratch data lists this as Mount McKinley.

JUICE: well thats because your scratch data was wrote by dickheads. its called Denali. you don't get to have the highest point in north america named after you just because you were president.

There is also something to be said for the mechanism of human change. It's largely generational. Peoples' wants and hopes and dreams evolved because young people entered the world and took another step forward.

JUICE: this IS capitalism you donk

JUICE: this is what its supposed to be, this is how it ends. if it isn't there its only because it isnt there yet. its like youre staring at a cake in the oven and wondering if its gonna be a cake.

NINE: I think I'm fascinated by this game.

JUICE: YES

TEN: NO

TEN: Is that a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh

JUICE: yeah

TEN: Why

JUICE: is there any explanation you would possibly find satisfactory

TEN: No

oh yeah broncos fans are crazy

I wouldn't want to watch it, but I'd love to read about it. It's like baseball.

It’s a bit we never play anymore.

But the universe is not made of atoms; it is made of the connections between them. The strength of those connections is what holds us together, just as stories do.

Now my words haunt others. I stay with them throughout their day and into their work. It’s a profound and humbling thing to realize this: to realize not only the power reading, and writing, has to change the world but my own place in this work. It is a political act, this demand to be seen and read across genres on our own terms and not as some sidekick existing only to save the white hero.

Language is never enough. Any discrete collection of words and grammar captures the analog reality of human experience no better than a net catches water. We are all of us made of stories half-told, half-understood, changed each time in that lawless space between the saying the listening.

Bruticus?????

Two things staunch the flow of blood. Time and fire.

I have no time.

Two things staunch the flow of blood. Time and fire.

I have no time.

“As a nation, we are not prepared to fight…what could be a Second World War.”

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