self help reading + music

from the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, mark haddon:

And when I was asleep I had one my favorite dreams.

And in the dream nearly everyone on earth is dead, because they have caught a virus. But it’s not like a normal virus. It’s like a computer virus. And people catch it because of the meaning of something an infected person says and the meaning of what they do with their faces when they say it, which means that people can also get it from watching an infected person on television, which means that it spreads around the world really quickly.

And when people get the virus they just sit on the sofa and do nothing and they don’t eat or drink and so they die.

And eventually there is no one left in the world except people who don’t look at other people’s faces and these people are all special people like me. And they like being on their own and I hardly ever see them because they are like okapi in the jungle in the Congo, which are a kind of sloth and are very shy and rare.

And I can go anywhere in the world and I know that no one is going to talk to me or ask me a question. But if I don’t want to go anywhere I don’t have to, and I can stay home and eat broccoli and oranges and licorice laces all the time, or I can play computer games for a whole week, or I can just sit in the corner of the room and run a $1 coin back and forth over the ripple shapes on the surface of the radiator. And I wouldn’t have to go to France.

the wreckers - leave the pieces