11/5/00

A snippet of conversation between me (Velvet) and Pär (Zell) taking place within the game medium as we work. Cut 'n pasted straight except that I changed the formatting slightly and added colors to make it clearer who was saying what. I'm working from home, he's working from the office, and (according to the fetal development charts) Small Tot is working on growing a brain and a bigger head to accomodate it, while wriggling around like mad inside me.

[Page] from Velvet: "SQUIRMY LITTLE TOT"

[Page] from Zell: "tot squirms because it loves you"

[Page] from Velvet: "you are so sweet"

[Page] from Zell: "it wants to be close to all your intestinal bits"

[Page] from Velvet: "ew"

[Page] from Zell: "i ruined it"

[Page] from Velvet: "you're just not sexually repressed"

[Page] from Zell: "flowers"

[Page] from Velvet: "It's too late now, I've got intestinal bits at the forefront of my awareness and the flowers don't drown them out."

[Page] from Velvet: "maybe some other time you can say something about flowers"

[Page] from Zell: "What if I point out to you the liver, the spleen, and other non-digestive organs?"

[Page] from Velvet: "Yes, the liver and spleen are very romantic, good work honey."

[Page] from Zell: "I can say many romantic things, but not when intestines are on your mind!"

[Page] from Velvet: "Don't act as though you weren't the one who put them there."

[Page] from Zell: "LOOK A FLYING ELK"

[Page] from Velvet: "ohmigosh!"

[Page] from Zell: "it is so large with its swirly horns and fierce stare! it's coming right at us!"

[Page] from Velvet: "i am totally distracted by the nonexistent flying elk."

[Page] from Zell: "the eyeballs are so fierce and scary, they hold your attention"

[Page] from Zell: "the elk looms ever larger!"

[Page] from Velvet: "my attention is riveted to the flying elk and its eyeballs"

[Page] from Zell: "pow! the elk vanishes! it was all a trick! instead I am hugging you!"

[Page] from Zell: "*SQUEEZE*"

[Page] from Velvet: "I am bowled over by the drama and romance of it all! Forsooth, you have won my heart completely."

[Page] from Zell: "that was the best!"

[Page] from Velvet: "Yeah, that was pretty exciting alright. You sure know how to woo a girl!"

[Page] from Zell: "i use the elk"

[Page] from Velvet: "Some guys use flowers, you use elks"

[Page] from Zell: "Sometimes I use flowers too."



   index before after

Thought Experiment © Karen