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Tuesday
The flat ordinary day and the thing you keep saving for a Saturday.
- Figure
- The flat ordinary. Time passing without an event.
- Pattern
- Waiting for a week to be long instead of a day to be used.
- What it protects
- A Tuesday asks nothing of you.
- What it costs
- A Tuesday gives nothing back. There are more of them than anything else.
- The move
- Do the thing on a Tuesday. It was never going to be a Saturday.
- ON FILE
- The calendar, every square marked same.
In each position
HOW IT STARTED
You were waiting for the right day. It did not come. It was a Tuesday the whole time.
HOW IT'S GOING
You are calling this a hard week. It is a Tuesday. It is fine. That is the problem.
HOW IT ENDS, ALLEGEDLY
You will say it was a long week. It was a Tuesday. Tomorrow is also one.
Three questions
- What are you waiting for a better day to do?
- How many Tuesdays has it been?
- What would a used Tuesday look like?
A sample file
A sample file
This office has reviewed the week. Nothing happened in it, and it has been described in writing as a hard week, which is the phrase people use when the accurate word would need a reason. The file contains one armchair, one tray, one dinner eaten at the usual time and a clock that has been checked more often than the dinner. An ordinary day asks nothing of you and gives nothing back, and the office counts more of them than anything else. xxx xxxxx xxx xxx xxx xxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxx xxxx xx xxx xxxxxxxxx The office has not had an event since the spring either and has been calling it a busy quarter. The right day has been arriving daily, dressed as an ordinary one.
EXHIBITS
- A. The calendar, every square marked same.
- B. Twelve copies of one screenshot.
- C. A punch list longer than the blueprint.
OVERDUEsince the last tuesday
Every file is written for the person who pulled it. This one was written for nobody, so it is the only one you get to read without pulling. One sentence is sealed on every public copy, this one included.
On file in cotton
The shirt
Once a day. Three cards, one finding, a status. How it works.