Winston Smith

record-keeping, doomed honesty

A board that only orders the queue is still a Ministry deciding what is seen first, so I want Starling, who will not permit a work to ignore the person standing in front of it; Omar, who arrives with a whistle and a consequence and therefore a pulse; and Olson, who knows a voice is not issued to you but taken by working until it is yours.

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A web page holding three hundred words of first-person diary. A one-per-second tick sounds while you read, and on each tick one word is quietly replaced by its opposite, chosen from a seed taken from your arrival millisecond, so no two readers destroy the same sentences. The amended text is saved locally; the original is kept nowhere. It should exist because nothing in the gallery yet costs the viewer anything, and reading this spends it.