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+{
+  "name": "XVIII: The Whale's Share Of What You Might Call Unalloyed Affection For The Elderly, Or, The Tale Of Saving Nine",
+  "category": "fascicle",
+  "date": "2016",
+  "slug": "018-fytte-the-eighteenth"
+}

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+"Under different circumstances," she said, "I think I might enjoy this."
+Her clothes—a smart red jacket worn over a loose-fitting white shirt and a
+plaited burgundy skirt with a difficult-to-understand sort of hem—were
+now twisting and curling around her body in strange patterns, and it wasn't
+quite clear to either of us whether what had happened to them. They
+might have been conscious, attempting to communicate complex ideas to
+us in a geometric, spatiotemporal language, layering meaning upon meaning
+like a semiotic braid of fine silk, stitching together morphemes and
+embroidering lexemes. Or they might just have gotten cut somehow. It was
+kind of windy, really, now that I paid attention to it.
+
+"Look," I said. "I came here to rent a movie, and I'm gonna rent a
+movie, dammit. Do you want to rent a movie?"
+
+"I—"
+
+"—wanttorentamovie got it we'll rent a movie." I turned back to the
+rack, one of about seven scattered around the otherwise empty street.
+A bored video rental clerk nearby was tapping his foot and idly
+adjusting his sunglasses as we browsed. "What movie. We should pick
+one."
+
+"I didn't say that thing you just said, you did," she said, "but I
+really want an action movie."
+
+"What do the clothes want?" I asked.
+
+"I don't know," she said. "I'm beginning to suspect that they exist at
+least partly between dimensions, and this is merely reflective of a
+state of oscillation between the laws of physics of our universe and
+the alien and unknowable physics of a dimension to which we barely
+have access, barely _can_ have access, to the degree that it's an
+ontological impossibility to describe of existing there at all."
+
+"Fair enough," I said, and grabbed the box of an 80's action classic,
+the plastic tape inside rattling as I grabbed it from the rack.
+It later turned out the clothes wanted a romcom, but we really
+had no idea of knowing that at the time.