Houlcroft’s Reviews > Sympathy Tower Tokyo > Status Update

“The original point of Twitter - back when that was the platform's official name, and not just the one by which most people still referred to it- was, basically, mumbling aloud to yourself. These days, it was full of people doing exactly the opposite, people who knew how to shout things that were Right and Meaningful and got them lots of attention”

"This is what I can't stand about you Al natives - this assumption that as long as you ask a question, you'll always get your answer.

Must. Should. The words, as firm as concrete, clanked and jolted within me. They were the sturdy columns and crossbeams I had erected to keep myself upright. I often spoke like this, using the language of will and obligation to put pressure on myself and those around me. I wanted to remove any unstable elements that had a chance, however remote, of causing the house I inhabited to collapse.