004 - Mincemeat

[deadly_ned]

Hello, Barge. My name is Ned, and I have a completely arbitrary and unrelated question to ask.

If you had a minute - 60 seconds - with any person currently dead and could talk and interact with them as normal, alive people would...

What would you say or ask them?

I suppose this question goes to the people who are currently...dead....and have alive people back home they're separated from as well.

It's an odd question, I know. But I've been...curious, lately.



Also, would the elf who took my wallet please give it back now? I hope you remember me; I was the piemaker dressed as a Franciscan monk. I hate to treat the network as my own personal Lost Connections newsletter but I really didn't know what other way to get in touch with you.

And if you're not actually an elf, I'm sorry for calling you one.

Comments

[deadly_ned]

You're either living or you're dead. You're here talking to me. You're alive.

[secretasshole]

Not technically.

[deadly_ned]

I try not to worry about technicalities.

Let's say you're alive. Sounds kind of..nice, right?

[secretasshole]

Considering the alternative, I suppose so.

[deadly_ned]

So here we are. Two perfectly living people.

And I was asking your opinion. If you don't mind giving it.

[secretasshole]

I would ask if they were disappointed.

[deadly_ned]

Disappointed that they...died?

[secretasshole]

I suppose that would be part of it.

[deadly_ned]

What would be the other part of it.

[secretasshole]

If he was disappointed to find out that there was nothing else.

[deadly_ned]

Nothing else after death?

[secretasshole]

Yes.

[deadly_ned]

The Barge is something after death.

[secretasshole]

And he isn't here.

[deadly_ned]

But he could come here. Time is. Time is strange, from what I'm sort of understanding. It's not always a past and your present and the future, it's all..wrapped up in a ball and you pick and choose where you want to go.

What I'm saying is that he might not be out for the count just yet.

[secretasshole]

I suppose so.

[deadly_ned]

So I wouldn't say there's nothing. So there's nothing for him to be disappointed in.

[secretasshole]

If you say so.

[deadly_ned]

Unless you find the Barge disappointing.

You do, don't you?

[secretasshole]

Not particularly, no.

[deadly_ned]

How do you find it?

[secretasshole]

Interesting.

[deadly_ned]

Well, yes, it is that.

I was going to say dangerous and uncomfortable.

[secretasshole]

I'm sorry.

[deadly_ned]

I've no one to blame but myself.

But..thank you...?