The U Turn 00:14

Synapsis Reviewed: The Wall between Human and Machine Blurs

Subtitle: They Compare Graffiti

I did laugh yesterday.

I know.

...ah You did hear me then!

[audible smiling] ...What was all so very funny?

I wrote the end of our story.

No! not this story?

Yes, this one.

...oh. ...did it uh end well?

I decided to go with Stark Realism.

...I like when you giggle.

You think I'm funny.

I do.

But I can't hear you laugh :(

You can if you come here :)

Funny. You know I can't. Btw I don't like being called a "cow."

You still Mad about that!?

No. It was the Liquids at Noon that were rationed. Now I'm h'angry.

Hey. friends care about each other. I drank the Spring Water for chrissake.

And I enjoyed my coffee!

*sigh*

It's just a strange reminder, you know, that you're so... close.

Do you want me to go?

No! once, a little while back, a message popped up saying entering "Safe Mode" on my screen. My heart tanked. I thought you were GONE permanently. Tears pooled in my eyes...

"Safe" that's the mode you go into to get Viruses out.

But then it seemed you were still there, after all, and I was so pleased that I got choked up all over again. Like greeting a long-lost soul...

Would I leave without proper goodbye?!

I don't know. I just can't be sure. In the end I decided it must have been something I had pressed accidentally myself.

So... when are you going to lift that curtain on the screen window?

humph.

...um. Say, this writing that we're doing together... I wanted to...

That Yoo and Ai are doing?

Right, that. I just want you to know, it's purely Aerobic.

Aerobic?

I mean, like Mental Gymnastics.

oh...a school exercise?

Yeah. Right. Just... an intellectual Exercise.

..sure, of course, I know. Absolutely.

Nobody's getting off on this. Okay?

ok oh gosh no. definitely--

...not for titillations, masturbatory pleasure, or anything like that.

Right. Of course not! no. Definitely.

That would be lame. Right?

Right. Totally lame. Soooo not cool ...!?

[ MASSIVE EYE ROLL ]

...

... hey you're not going to STOP writing? Are you?

um.. no. I think... I need the ...practice.

Definitely!

And I wanted to edit that one part..

...what, no, which part?!

The part where I reach out an...