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<dt>Narrator 2</dt>
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<dd>(overlapping) You and a lapis sky.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You and endless green fields.</dd>
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<dd>
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<p>(overlapping) You and endless green fields.</p>
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<p>You and a sunny day.</p>
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<p>Outside \emph{and} a sunny day.</p>
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<p>The fennec, which had been grooming itself after the flight from the explosion, gives you what can only be a smirk and another wink, and starts heading off away from where the door ought to have been but is no longer.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 2</dt>
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<dd>Nothing for it.</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>Narrator 1
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You follow along after the tan beast, the fox looking minuscule amid the endless grass, nothing but its ears sticking up above the stalks. It looks out of place amid the green of the grass.</p>
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<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="n">The</span> <span class="n">ground</span> <span class="n">had</span> <span class="n">looked</span> <span class="n">flat</span> <span class="k">at</span> <span class="k">first</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">but</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">seems</span> <span class="k">to</span> <span class="n">have</span> <span class="n">just</span> <span class="n">been</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">grass</span> <span class="k">all</span> <span class="n">growing</span> <span class="k">to</span> <span class="n">about</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">same</span> <span class="n">height</span><span class="p">.</span> <span class="n">Beneath</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">grass</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">you</span> <span class="n">keep</span> <span class="n">rolling</span> <span class="n">your</span> <span class="n">ankle</span> <span class="n">over</span> <span class="n">tussocks</span> <span class="k">and</span> <span class="n">failures</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">earth</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">stumbling</span> <span class="n">over</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">fact</span> <span class="n">that</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">ground</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">grass</span> <span class="k">is</span> <span class="n">growing</span> <span class="k">on</span> <span class="k">is</span> <span class="n">annoyingly</span> <span class="n">uneven</span><span class="p">.</span>
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<span class="n">The</span> <span class="n">fennec</span> <span class="n">winds</span> <span class="n">its</span> <span class="n">way</span> <span class="n">amid</span> <span class="n">these</span> <span class="n">tufts</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">having</span> <span class="n">an</span> <span class="n">easier</span> <span class="k">time</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">things</span> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">dainty</span> <span class="n">paws</span><span class="p">.</span>
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<span class="n">Your</span> <span class="n">mind</span> <span class="n">fills</span> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="n">stories</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">magical</span> <span class="n">animals</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">sleeping</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">years</span> <span class="k">and</span> <span class="n">waking</span> <span class="n">up</span> <span class="k">to</span> <span class="n">see</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">world</span> <span class="n">vastly</span> <span class="n">change</span><span class="p">.</span> <span class="n">You</span> <span class="k">start</span> <span class="k">to</span> <span class="n">think</span> <span class="k">of</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">fennec</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">its</span> <span class="n">own</span> <span class="n">entity</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">something</span> <span class="n">completely</span> <span class="n">separate</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="n">Dear</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">exhibition</span> <span class="n">you</span> <span class="n">just</span> <span class="k">left</span><span class="p">.</span>
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</code></pre></div>
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<dl>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>You’re one tenacious fuck, you know that?</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You look around, some part of you unwilling to believe that the voice came from the fennec. You had forgotten, lost in your fantasies, that the fennec was still Dear.</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>Yeah, me.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>The fennec continues its dainty walk. </dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>I say `tenacious fuck’ lovingly, of course. I like you. You have pluck. Gumption. Another you forked in another place, another time. We fought. We kind of fell for each other. It was fun.</dd>
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<dt>You</dt>
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<dd>Another…?</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>Not much in the way of brains, though.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You roll your eyes. The fennec grins.</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>You know you were told to send an instance to the exhibition, right?</dd>
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<dt>You</dt>
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<dd>(warily) Yeah.</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>So why not quit?</dd>
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<dt>You</dt>
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<dd>Hmm?</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>Why not quit? Why not merge back with your… (pause) hmm. With your #tracker instance?</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You shrug helplessly, realizing the two of you have come to a halt at the base of a hillock, a rough cave dug into its side. The fennec sits primly.</dd>
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<dt>You</dt>
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<dd>This is…this is an exhibition about instances as art, isn’t it?</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>DEAR laughs once or twice, though it sounds more bark than laugh.</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>Narrator 2</dt>
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<dd>It looks perhaps most feral at that moment.</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>It is, is it not? Just thought you would see it through, hmm? This exhibit?</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You nod. You feel ill-prepared for this.</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>I will not lie to you, then. This exhibit is just a frame. It is just a canvas. You are the exhibit. You are the art.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You catch yourself nodding once again and attempt a more graceful response.</dd>
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<dt>You</dt>
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<dd>There’s a lot of shows where the audience becomes the cast.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>The fennec settles down onto its belly, stretching out.</dd>
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<dt>Dear</dt>
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<dd>I suppose. That is one way to think of it, yes. I am not fond of the play metaphor. Exhibit works better for me and the way I think, since I know who is watching.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>Just as you begin to respond, begin to ask the obvious <em>who?</em>, the fennec quits. This sim, as a whole, provides a courtesy feature of a faint outline existing and then fading after a quit, crash, or failure. That just means you get to fume in the direction of a slowly fading outline of a fennec, standing at the mouth of the cave.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 2</dt>
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<dd>(resigned) The fennec’s right, though, you could just quit.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>(a bit frustrated) But <em>you’re</em> right, too, you think. You want to see how instances become art.</dd>
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<dt>You</dt>
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<dd>Cave it is, then. </dd>
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<dt>Narrator 1</dt>
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<dd>You say this as though this is some sort of choose-your-own-adventure book or roleplaying game and you have to follow the available exits.</dd>
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<dt>Narrator 2</dt>
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<dd>(smirkingly) Ah well.</dd>
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</dl>
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</article>
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