All soft horses, no straight lines. A multi-purpose greeting card configured to read, "Everyone is delighted that we're bound by that pact." I exist in this wasteland, reduced to one instinct: Survive. "I accept that the planet is warm, and I rejoice that it is warm." -Mark Steyn (ghoul), 2015. "This is me beating the shit out of you until you manifest that idea you had in the shower." -CJ the X, 2022 The quest for knowledge is an infinite game played by finite creatures. A pair of two-dimensional eyes gaze though anaglyph glasses into the third dimension. "It grows harder from here," she warned the cat, but it dropped to the path and walked forward as though to say, 'You are wasting your time.' -Kij Johnson, 2016 "Why'd they make that drawer so hot?!" The world isn't getting smaller. Every part of it is simply accelerating toward you. "Is this the original board game of death?" -Colin Barras, 2020 "LOOK AT HER. y'all need to appreciate her more" like girl... she's lines "When a man tries to see into the distance, what does he do? He narrows his eyes." -Katsuhiro Otomo, 1987 Five enemies defeated and only one round left to defeat the resulting sadness. The Tacoma Art Museum invites residents of 2009 to discovery how David Macaulay works. Smitten lovers paint the town red. A royal crow announces, "Hooray! A significant personal accomplishment!" A dog is astonished. How is an ungulate like a human-powered aircraft? Three eggs. Or is it four? A man peers up at the James Webb Space Telescope, far beyond the Moon.