I take my mind away from regarding Machine as Other, which is merely an investigation, a way to find new shapes in creative thinking. There’s no such thing as an exercise in fiction. I let go and ride what it delivers me for information in my search and re-search, and to free associate through everything it delivers, make it a dialogue I am caused to understand, fact or fiction, a story machine is telling me, a conversation it is making.  I make the meaning for myself, when I know there’s no stepping outside that. every day we tell ourselves our lives, every day. I can’t possibly be shocked to discover I’m directly affected, sometimes profoundly, by