The invitation to the meeting had been distributed, oddly,
in the middle of the night, a practice that would have been viewed as mildly
gauche.
To: istes Holoway
Xie Xia
Double yOu dee
Cr*sh
Urt
Peday
Conjaju
Merci
d’avoir fait votre part.
coose-coose-loose
ˈ
loose
1.800.456.1191
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@ @ @ @ @
From: ude eer
Re: Status
Meeting
Kindly be reminded that our next Status Meeting is scheduled
for Tuesday September 21 in Space 231-C at 1400h. Light snacks will be provided.
Team members should be reminded that PMRFs (project
modification request forms) are required to be communicated to the PMO no later
than Friday 2000h. There are to be no
exceptions. Because of target exceeding
in August, code sheets are optional.
istes didn’t know what to think. It worked its way over to Urt’s pod and
angled its words accordingly, knowing the histories of Urt’s orientations in
similar circumstances all too well.
Nice mug Urt.
What’s up?
Are you going skiing
this weekend?
What’s up istes?
Just chatting. Pod boredom.
It’s the meeting.
Merci d’avoir fait
votre part. won’t like it.
Does it ever?
Right.
But it is the third
time.
Right.
Urt paused and laid its mug on the recyclings, shaking
slightly. So?
So.
Funny. I would have thought you’d have shown later.
That’s not the point
Urt. You know it.
You were trying to
surprise me.
No. No surprises.
You can’t be surprised.
Everyone can be
surprised.
Has Xie Xia?
OK. Everyone but Xie Xia. Why is that?
It’s taken more module
training.
I don’t think that’s
it.
What is it then?
I think it’s its
units.
Or profits or habits.
Or credits or debits.
Benefits. Or spirits or limits or merits or deposits or
…
Stop. Stop it.
Or rabbits.
It’s hard.
Let’s stop.
You started it.
Go istes. Go. No
more games. We’ll deal with this on
Tuesday.
Back in its pod, istes became more pleased with the
conversation with Urt than it had thought.
While no resolutions had been obviously forthcoming, istes felt as if an
understanding had been tangentially developed which could result in resolutions. Urt hadn’t shut down. The testiness at the end wasn’t real. The references to Xie Xia were binding. Merci d’avoir fait votre part. might be able
to be systematized under certain conditions. istes experienced joy. It had been the right move. Tuesday would come.
***
Xie Xia was the first to arrive, with ude eer ensconced in
the authorized status post, monitoring the arrivals.
Xie Xia, ude eer
said.
ude, said Xie Xia.
Xie Xia placed itself and made a move to grab a stalk of les
prés
garder but then withdrew, sensing more arrivings.
ude eer was greeted by ude
or eer, and ude eer greeted each
arrival in turn from her asp, until each was placed and stalks had been
obtained and the meeting was called forth.
Have you been skiing?
ude eer asked, and Urt was known to be asked.
I have not been skiing
but this weekend offers possibilities, Urt tactfully responded.
Skiing offers
possibilities, ude eer said.
Skiing offers possibilities,
the project team said together. While
Urt was resented for this by some, particularly 1.800.456.1191 and Peday
Conjaju, the majority received the repetition neutrally and oriented themselves
toward the affirmation, shifting dynamics and, slightly, the future.
Bandits, said Urt.
istes almost crashed.
It had been wrong about Urt. The
testiness was real. An understanding
hadn’t been developed. Urt had appeared
to not shut down. istes de-experienced
joy and began decommissioning.
Let us sing the song,
said ude eer.
The project members switched to song mode and retrieved the
song.
More
than ever this is what i think
more
than ever this is what i do
more
than ever more than ever
ever is more than evermore
They cycled through the pronouns, according to the
Malaka-Nwert Standard—i, we, they,
which, yours, whoms, codas of
repeated i’s. istes had always found the MNS Standard
particularly satisfying; it went across memory to the space where the MNS
Standard is in a meadow with monarchs and high and super fluffy clouds and
white pythons melted on themselves, and humming.
I’d like to put a
point on the table, said ista.
Let us subject the
putting to the table, said ude eer. Puter.
It should be Putter.
No. Putter is non-standard. You are not current on your utts and ees, @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @
@ @ @ @ @ @, said ude eer. You
have been asked to leave.
I request exceptions,
said @@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ @
@ @ @ @ .
Are exceptions granted?
asked ude eer.
ude has the gonads,
Merci d’avoir fait votre part. said.
eer has the gonads,
coose-coose-loose ˈ loose repeated.
ude eer has the gonads,
the project team chorused.
She has the gonads,
ude eer said, causing certain stirs and leakings. You
have been asked to leave.
It wasn’t an easy leaving.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @
@ @ @ @ @’s dimensions didn’t fully conform (a point of
discussion even at the time in Onsk, which would, though not part of our story,
result in a recall of an aapstert and
one or two schniks and a consideration of the nature and function of further miukumaukus),
and the meeting grew unruly for a time, and more stalks became required and
obtained and obtained, which caused further unsettlings. In short, almost everyone wished @@@@@@@@@@@ @@ (@)
@ @ @ @ had become
familiar with its utts and ees.
Puter, said ude
eer.
Double yOu dee Cr*sh cleared itself. I put,
it said.
What do you put?
the team members asked.
I put put, said
Double yOu dee Cr*sh.
What do you put put?
I put put put.
What do you put put
put?
I put put put put.
What do you …
Enough, said ude
eer. What
is the resolution?
ista is facilitated,
said Double yOu dee Cr*sh.
ista, said ude
eer.
In cycling through the
pronouns under the MNS Standard, began ista, …
Exception, a
number said.
An obvious exception,
said ude eer.
ista awkwarded. It
hadn’t been the best of times after all.
In this case we grant
the exception, said ude eer, before
the non-standard, itself non-standard, a legitimacy foreordained. Continue ista.
In cycling through the
pronouns under the MNS, began ista, we
have been asked to consider the amateurishness of professionalism,
jurisprudence, footbag, aardvark, Lee Valley, Rochefort, Kunstwerkstücksache, widget,
tiling (as gerundation), hiiri, hiiret, миш, мишеви, ilygoden, ilygod, ਮਾਊਸ
ਨੂੰ,
ਮਾਊਸ,
nas, Durban, nas, ụmụ oke, …
The point has been
puted. We subject it, said ude eer.
The project team subjected.
ista stalked.
Let us sing the song,
ude eer said after the requisites.
The project members switched to song mode and retrieved the
song.
More
is or but for the ore
less
is and and evermore
ravens
is as sows does
does
don’t do what poets was or bows
Puter? said ude
eer.
There are objects and
subjects, said Double yOu dee Cr*sh.
Is there resolution?
said ude eer.
There is resolution,
said Double yOu dee Cr*sh.
What is the
resolution? said ude eer.
The resolution is that
the considering is become the de-considering.
Skiing offers
possibilities, the project team said together.
Skiing offers
possibilities, the project team said together.
***
Back in its pod, ista considered the de-considering, the
events as a whole and fragmented, Urt’s urting, the exceptions and leaving and
recalling and furthers, reviewed its utts and ees, retrieved some songs,
thought of les prés garder, veered away from gonads, მაუსიd a little,
slept.
Angling then into Urt’s pod again, it said, ...
Don’t say
it, said Urt.
Everything’s
going to be ok, said ista.
We ski, said
Urt.
We ski, said
ista.
We ski, they
said, the two its said.
We ski.
And when the next invitation arrived, distributed, less oddly, in
the middle of the night, mores were not unaltered, and ista received hopes that
the puting of its considering would be resolutioned, that the angling of Urt
would be arced, and that joy would be distributed and Tuesday would come again.
