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<h1 id="codrin-balancastor-2325">Codrin Balan#Castor — 2325</h1>
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<p>The first interview that Codrin Bălan conducted was with an author who had chosen to invest completely in the launches, leaving no one behind. </p>
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<p>At first, Codrin wondered why it was that this author had chosen to be a part of the interview process, why it was that Dear had recommended him. He seemed, on the surface to be entirely uninteresting. He was an author. That was that.</p>
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<p>His name was Joseph Rankin, and while Codrin had not read any of his works prior to the suggestion, he had certainly heard the name in various literary circles that ey trawled on occasion. A man prone to grand literary gestures, one who leaned heavily on the twisting of endless sentences, ceaseless streams of fragments, prose that bordered on florid even by Codrin’s relatively flowery standards.Ey knew that ey were prone to many of the same pitfalls, but this man took it to an extreme that they found frankly unreasonable.</p>
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<p>His name was Joseph Rankin, and while Codrin had not read any of his works prior to the suggestion, ey had certainly heard the name in various literary circles that ey trawled on occasion. A man prone to grand literary gestures, one who leaned heavily on the twisting of endless sentences, ceaseless streams of fragments, prose that bordered on florid even by Codrin’s relatively flowery standards.Ey knew that ey were prone to many of the same pitfalls, but this man took it to an extreme that they found frankly unreasonable.</p>
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<p>Cousin, to prepare for the interview, had read two of Rankin’s books. They were not without their merit, as might any such book that garnered so much attention, but they still took a good bit of work to get through. He wrote most often about contemporary life within the system in all its deliriously boring intricacies.</p>
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<p>That said, much of his work was bound up in a sense of magical realism that was, ey had to admit, fairly enticing. This was something that Codrin has never managed to capture emself, and so ey set aside some time to study the ways in which Rankin used surrealism to, without distracting, enhance the story at hand.</p>
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<p>Meeting Rankin was exactly as they had expected. There was nothing about him that did not shout Joseph Rankin. He wore his identity on his face, on his chest, in the way his hands moved across the table as they talked, there at the cafe, there sitting out on the street, there sipping their espressos.</p>
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<p><em>Alas.</em></p>
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<p>“I’ve heard from my partner that–“</p>
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<p>“Ah, yes! The illustrious Dear! How is he?”</p>
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<p>“<mark class="selected">It</mark>(This should come up later with Dear, who will doubtless throw back its head, cackling. It’s doing quite well.”</p>
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<p>“It. It’s doing quite well.”</p>
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<p>“Right, right. <em>It</em> always did have such a strange way of moving through the world.”</p>
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<p>“If we could–” Ey cut emself off and recomposed eir plastic smile. “I’ve heard that you are working on a project that capitalizes on this. Can you expand on that?”</p>
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<p>“Of course! Of course. I will always help a fellow writer.” He set his cup aside and made a grand sweep of his arm. “You look around you, and you see so many going about their lives as the might have otherwise. Even I am guilty of the dalliance of getting up, drinking coffee, perhaps sitting and reading a while. We lucky few–” Codrin knew that some two and a half billion personalities were on the launches, but ey declined to comment. “–can draw so much inspiration from a project on so grand a scale. My project is one that utilizes the base nature of a personality embedded in a system that cares not about consistency between its two constituent parts.</p>
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<p>There was a sensorium ping, a view of the office where Ioan had begun work so many years ago.</p>
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<p>“I should’ve known.”</p>
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<p><em>“I am more predictable than you give me credit for, my dear.”</em></p>
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<p>“So, while he was being a pompous ass, did he actually have anything to add to the conversation besides that one idea?”</p>
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<p>After a moment’s silence, ey grumbled, “He even kept calling you ‘he’. Drove me nuts.”</p>
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<p>Dear made a strange face, then threw its head back and cackled. <em>“He has honed his insensitivity into quite the art. So, while he was being a pompous ass, did he actually have anything to add to the conversation besides that one idea?”</em></p>
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<p>Codrin shook eir head.</p>
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<p><em>“He always was a one-trick pony.”</em></p>
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<p>“He also kept talking about idioms that applied mostly to phys-side and how they stick around here, on that note. But still, it’s a worry I struggle with.”</p>
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<p><em>“They do not need to be. They are all the same.”</em></p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-18</p>
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<p>Page generated on 2021-09-24</p>
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