We put her under, wheel her in and begin to understand.
- [[her legs]]
- [[her code]]
- [[her arms]]
- [[her head]]
<% s.blankSlate() %><%
const legs = [
"We cut her legs to ripples, of the sort seen when molars drop into a brimming basin. Consider those spread by a left mandibular third: they bespeak swerves or reckonings. With her augury we may thread the divide between \"should have done\" and \"can't\".",
"Forget her feet, mute slabs ever. Her ankles halo cacophony; with care we can strain wisps of portents. In her calves the same flat lines loop as prefunctory prayer. Her knees all but break us with stab after dire stab--some argue they're but bitter ironies.",
"Now we'll fall off. Her thighs told us so. Who could go on after this slap, this \"I will lay you out without thought because you lot distance me: y'all don't duck the smanch of delighted butchery: you claw to drop my stopstart leaps\"? She ahs a grin! A"
]
s.cutHer("legs")
%>
<%= s.observeHer(legs) %><%
const code = [
"We slice up her code with an eye toward aubade: to splay discrete instructions so they rosy-stain the sterile horizon she intakes daily. A cave-in is a yawn; hollowing outward could yet rouse her.",
"No radiation spills indefinite--her spread's rounded off by turbines, broadcasts and downpours. Victory! She becomes muddled in everything; each current bears her touch like so much unvouched pollen. Her core's swollen with vacancies.",
"Will she spear it: come to ground and roust the slumbersome? Shoots go as far as their thirst and no more. Roots wear not true colors but old colors. No, she might soak up the sea or give wings to a stone."
]
s.cutHer("code")
%>
<%= s.observeHer(code) %><%
const arms = [
"We undo her arms with scores fine and all over, hatchmarks that surface questions just to end them at once. Who is she? A test. What subject? No matter.",
"How are we to find her seams with such restless attentions? She is nothing but. Her veins, elbows, biceps are flimsy unconvincing tissues knit by malign tricksters. What we had named 'vim' was no more than a rounding error.",
"We cut through the table; the tiles; the concrete. A cistern greets us: unrecorded microorganisms film over its face. Will we break through to the fathoms or will the slime stretch and rebound, hurling us backward to splat on the ceiling?"
]
s.cutHer("arms")
%>
<%= s.observeHer(arms) %>
<%
const head = [
"We carve her head so pointedness and polish are ever at odds. She should either puncture her interlocutors or glaze them until they're ablur, not both. If she's meant to be taken readily, plucked then sampled or sounded, then Janice can't but fizz and scramble.",
"They will reread her and again, till marginalia creeps 'pon her jaw and brow, till pin and pen 'lapse into a droplet: snot, wax, butter, as you will't. O unmatched heterostasis, that gorges each cell unto unseaming! We won't die.",
"Her head welcomes a pungent purple mold, every surface soon furred with it. Stubborn, useless as the nestless tree: we find no proper purgative. The first to taste calls it \"characteristic\"; the second tries most every other word. We've spun slang enough now to ungird the cosmic lung."
]
s.cutHer("head")
%>
<%= s.observeHer(head) %>
<%= s.pivotHer() %>we:
- swivel the table
- refer to the monitors
- take up fresh instruments
- resume after a breather
- try on a new gauze
- reload our staplers
- tilt back the lamps
"composites" centers upon medical abuse in a surgical setting; it does not have any pictures or any explicit descriptions of gore.
thank you and take care<br><3 B
[[<<<|title page]]1 opening line {O}
7 interstitial/jump lines {I}
4 body parts {L,C,A,H}
with 3 passages {B,M,E}
2 choices: stay {-} or jump {=>}
4 eager endings {LE,CE,AE,HE}
[optionally, 4 extra-eager endings/variants {LEx,CEx,AEx,HEx}
[ >make no jumps, e.g. O LB-LM-LEx
1 balanced ending {BE}
>advance all 4 parts to M before cutting again
e.g. O LB-LM=>CB-CM=>AB-AM=>HB-HM-BE
1 restless ending {RE}
>make 8 jumps, the maximum possible number before reaching E
e.g. O LB=>CB=>AB=>HB=>LM=>CM=>AM=>HM=>RE
1, 2, 4 or 8 stay/jump phrases {__?}
each body part offers at most 2 stay/jump choices
e.g. LB?LM?(LE|BE|RE)
1) always the same
(LB? == HM?) ...
2) changes by passage but not part
(LB? == HB?) && (LB? =/= LM?) ...
4) changes by part but not passage
(LB? == LM?) && (LB? =/= HB?) ...
8) changes by passage and part
(LB? =/= HB?) && (LB? =/= LM?) ...
8 is right out: no way to keep each phrase distinct, lucid and pleasingWe devein her of the least specificity: any portrait would prove an unpained slate. Her flame's at ease, at ebb. Relief hangs in the air like a fresh-caught snapper.
After passing her off to the recovery room, we mob the cafe. Their pastries defy the second law; jellies and creams coalesce into ever-ascending order. A tiled trench catches our crumbs.We can't slit still. Our letters of intent reverse and lose all reference in her churn. What a nestled mess--who can pronounce where second fourth fifth guesses end and the original flesh interjects? We dare reach no further, lest more than gloves snag on the serpentine din.
Scrubbing out is interminable. Worse, it's underdetermined. The lights, faucets and coathooks spread prismatic, mitotic, mimetic. These replicas crowd us out: we're shunted into stereotyped behaviors of the meanest sort. We had imagined such disgrace and plotted it play-by-play and for what.composites<br>
B Minus Seven
<%= s.choices.title() %>