[from my files] :: my brother at Shepherd Spinal Center]
* * * * 2600 hertz
The twelve things I know about my condition I learned in the waiting room. This is not the arbitration you called. Bring me solution-based problems. The tipping point is either price or marketing but not both, according — Hyperspace is a necessary device in space opera. To get from A to . Or: ships that house a population that will reproduce for generations. Or: don’t read that stuff. Improve yourself, banish genre from all inventory. I feel abysmal. I could use a holiday. I could use the fuck out of a holiday. What they don’t tell you about middle age is that the sun gets brighter, everything’s more vivid. The walls are pulsing like they’re breathing. Nothing is safer than scuba diving. If you tell me in confidence I will blame it on piracy.
A.D. Harper
[2600 hertz (2600 Hz) is a frequency in hertz (cycles per second) that was used in telecommunication signaling in mid-20th century long-distance telephone networks]