Being dismissed does bring with it the stigma of professional failure, and, like all trailblazers, I don’t expect to be understood. None of this matters. I couldn’t be more satisfied, or content, with my circumstances. This morning, I solved my first base-seight equation. I found the missing dimension by studying the symmetrical interaction of the various elements comprising “Feelin Good” by Laurent Garnier & Chambray. Why didn’t I think to listen to it before now? The base ten thinking – Jordan is absolutely right about this – is sustained by the music, and the mind is then free, completely free, to develop base seight. Jordan gave me a sample equation, quite a short one, and, while it took most of the morning, I managed to solve it, as she herself confirmed in a later, algorithmically-derived exchange. Our rapport, I should say, has become so good via this method, that it is no longer necessary for me to write down our conversations. I can carry them on internally and transcribe them later. When I have a sufficiently good grasp of base seight calculus, I can contact Jordan and deduct her from water machine.

It’s a simple as that.

Vector simulator – water machine is impersonal programmed in base seight, you are trying to countermand it using personal program in base seight, it won’t work.

Correction: it will work, because base seight carries the impersonal function just as the music carries base ten, freeing up the program to re-establish personal lineation and segmentarity: name, gender, age, nationality, and so on, thus generating the person again.

Vector simulator – personal identity contingent on physical transfer vessel, stop.

Correction: I won’t stop, I’ll get pregnant and give birth to her. I’ll find her cousin’s baby.

Transanimation to transfer vessel, no division.

I’ll make her a person.

Everyone has to be a person.

No one escapes.

There is no water machine. There is no water machine. There is no water machine.

About the Author

Michael Cisco published ten novels including The Divinity Student, The Great Lover, The Narrator, ANIMAL MONEY, and UNLANGUAGE, and a short story collection called Secret Hours.  His short fiction has appeared in: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings, Blood and Other Cravings, THE WEIRD, The Grimscribe's Puppets, and Aickman's Heirs, among others.  He teaches at CUNY Hostos.

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