Body Plans for the New Millennium

(css: "font-size: 150%;") [<center> BODY PLANS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM </center>] <center>[[..o.. -> intro1]]</center> (display: "sound load")

[<center>(display: "anger graphic")</center>](set: $axis1 to "anger") (set: $sec to 4)(live: 1s)[(set: $sec to it - 1)(if: $sec is 0) [(stop:)(display: "multinode story first half") (if: $previousAxis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis2 to "shortTime")Barely a fortnight after the Borgias’ transition into crustaceans, a colony of gigantic crabs became privy to the nearness of a gargantuan octopus. Overtaken by a violent fear, the crabs scattered and hid amid deep clusters of limestone, hoping for the hardness of the rock to offer them protection. It did not work. Indifferent to the constraints of geometry, the octopus poured itself into the rocky crevices and, like a beast made of liquid, drowned the crabs in its musculature, crushing their carapaces and feasting on their juicy innards. Many crabs fell to the octopus’ muscular embrace. Those who didn’t, however, carried within them a fright that no grammar could properly articulate. Generations later, a young crab saw, in the distance, a shadow resembling eight nimble limbs. Without understanding why, a knowledge coded deep within his flesh compelled him to run away.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis2 to "midTime")Short of a century after the Borgias’ transition into crustaceans, a handful of gargantuan crabs started to molt in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. Fully aware of the dangers of softness, their kin banded together to bring them fished fish and the occasional broken-neck capybara, and despite the lack of familial bonds, a couple of sturdy crabs stood guard to discourage the pumas. On the third morning of their softness, the molters were presented with an excess of acais and mangos. They gorged themselves, inadvertently covering their bodies with sweet juices and seeds. Elated, they gurgled loudly, as if in gratitude, as if in a promise of reciprocity. As the molters enjoyed their fruity feast, a multitude of bullet ants started to gather in the vicinity. Eager to share in the crabs’ bounty, the ants crawled over the molters, taking bites of fruit out of their mouths and pincers. By the time the sentinel crabs noticed the encroachment, the molters were overrun by ants, their shape almost indistinguishable under the breathing drapery of eager jaws. The ants preferred the sweetness of fruit, but were no strangers to the taste of flesh.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis2 to "longTime")A couple million years after the Borgias’ transition into crustaceans, a colony of gargantuan land crabs withered away in the Andean highland. Surrounded by mountain and stone, they themselves had grown to become a bit like mountain and a bit like stone: grey, huge, slow. For reasons that escaped them, over the last couple of days much of the local fauna had left their volcano-side dwellings en masse, leaving the crabs hungry and alone. They, too, had felt an unnamable compulsion to run away, but their enrockened limbs had long renounced nimble movement. On the eve of the fourth day of their abandonment, the earth started a furious heartbeat; a relentless sequence of tremors that brought down mountain and crab alike. From the volcano’s summit, a bright maw poured liquid sun onto the valleys. The crabs, in abject terror, walked their fastest walk away from the angry mountain. They plunged themselves into a nearby lake, hoping to awaken some aquatic memory in their lungs. Submerged deep in cold water, the stony crabs drowned.] (display: "multinode story second half") (display: "anger engine")(display: "sound continue")]]

[<center>(display: "anger graphic")</center>](set: $axis1 to "anger") (set: $sec to 4)(live: 1s)[(set: $sec to it - 1)(if: $sec is 0) [(stop:)(display: "multinode story first half") (if: $previousAxis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis2 to "shortTime")A couple of days after the Borgias' encrabment, a coastal town near the Argentinean pampas was besieged by a battalion of gargantuan crustaceans. The invading force came in at noon, clattering into market square as their hard limbs rained upon the cobbled streets. The turmoil echoed across town and woke the local gargantuan crustaceans that were peacefully dreaming of romaine lettuce and sea salt. Vexed by the intrusion, the residents poured out of their windows and flung themselves against the unfamiliar arthropods. There was a hammering of claws, a breaking of shells, a snapping of limbs. There was an impossibly loud belligerent gurgling that grew louder and louder until it didn’t. The streets were painted blue.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis2 to "midTime")About a decade after the Borgias' encrabment, a host of gargantuan crustaceans had corralled their young in the shallow ponds that surrounded their mangroves. Tens of thousands of crablings, still no bigger than the pit of a peach, started emerging from their larval carapaces bearing the wide shells and elegant limbs of their foreparents. Driven by a deep, primal urge, they poured out of their ponds and ran desperately towards the water, weaving a tapestry of eager life between the earth and the sea. Much aware of the momentousness of the occasion, the gargantuan crabs who sired the crablings had taken post around the shore to bear witness. As soon as they saw their young cascading towards them, they raised their pincers to the sky and erupted in joyous gurgling. They tried to stay still to avoid accidental trampling, but they couldn’t help themselves: there was a song in their limbs, and so they marched in place. A little dance. As the living tapestry of crablings descended upon the shore, the denizens of the mangrove set out to feed. From above, a flock of white ibises took turns to poach the slow ones, which were often the biggest and the juiciest. From the ground, dirt-colored snakes took crablings by the mouthful and raccoons choked from biting more than they could chew. The gargantuan crabs, compelled by an incomprehensible fury, ran across the shore trying to drive away the attackers, flailing and gurgling desperately. For every predator they repelled, however, another would join the feeding. A group of laborious ants could consume a crabling, and so could, in the water, the maw of a lemon shark.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis2 to "longTime")Tens of thousands of years after the Borgias' encrabment, almost a hundred crustaceans emerged from their mangroves carrying shiny rocks and pretty sticks. Enduring the pains of gravity and dry air, they climbed a nearby hill and placed their bounty upon the summit. Once the pile had grown taller than even the tallest of crabs and wider than even the most bloated of carapaces, they all made a circle around it and sang, claw in claw, a sad gurgling of remembrance. As if a surrogate weep, it started to rain. Hidden amid the surrounding trees and bushes, a battalion of hostile crustaceans waited patiently for the mourners to be completely absorbed in song. As a deep sadness settled into the chanters’ cephalothoraxes, the attackers flung themselves against the chanters with reckless disregard. There was a hammering of claws, a breaking of shells, a snapping of limbs. There was an impossibly loud belligerent gurgling that grew louder and louder until it didn’t. The hill was painted blue.] (display: "multinode story second half")  (display: "anger engine") (display: "sound continue")]]

[<center>(display: "joy graphic")</center>](set: $axis1 to "joy") (set: $sec to 4)(live: 1s)[(set: $sec to it - 1)(if: $sec is 0) [(stop:)(display: "multinode story first half") (if: $previousAxis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis2 to "midTime")A couple of years after the carcinization of the Borgias, a large group of young crustaceans wandering in deep waters was being preyed upon by a gigantic, unnamable shark. They could not swim nimbly enough to escape its maw, nor fast enough to seek refuge in the ocean floor. The shark, content with ramming against the haphazard cluster of crabs with an eager jaw, devoured them by the mouthful. Some younglings jerked around in terror, swimming in circles until the shark got around to poach them. Others, however, allowed themselves to be taken by a kinship of movement. The chaotic cluster of crabs started to assume form: a sphere, a wave, a meander. They would no longer rely on their own bodies but in a shared sense of space. Not two eyes, but many. Not ten limbs, but hundreds. And so they danced. The protean cluster warped around the shark, caressing its gills, evading its maw. The shark, exhausted, swam away.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis2 to "shortTime")Merely hours after the carcinization of the Borgias, the gargantuan crabs that now inhabited a Japanese fishing village took to the ocean for the first time. As soon as they submerged themselves in the salty water, they were overcome by the comforts of buoyancy, the gravity of a different world. Some walked, cautiously, as if not to trip. Some tripped and tumbled gently onto their backs, struggling to stand straight until a fellow crab tipped them over. There were some, however, who immediately abandoned the safety of the ocean floor and, with little regard for earthly constraints, swam away. To the bottom dwelling crabs, the swimmers seemed like birds, like dandelions, like clouds, and so they extended their pincers towards the sky, as if asking to be untethered. The swimmers, eager to share the joys of vertical motion, grabbed their sand-bound kin by the claws and moved upwards, as high as they could, and then let go. The uninitiated crabs would tumble back down, desperately jerking their limbs to no avail before hitting the ocean floor. The swimmers would pick them up again, and again, until in the midst of falling a primal engine would start revving, until their limbs remembered how to swim. By the crack of dawn, not a single crab remained bound to the sand.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis2 to "longTime")Several millennia after the carcinization of the Borgias, a dozen gargantuan crustaceans found themselves treading barren grounds deep in the Pacific Ocean. Far away from hospitable waters, the crabs began to starve, finding around them only sand, and rocks, and the carcasses of animals way bigger than themselves. Unable to find direction in that lightless desert, the crabs accepted their fate. As they sought comfort in the rocks beneath them, however, they felt a multitude of carvings, familiar marks that couldn’t possibly have occurred by whims of the ocean alone. Other crabs had been there before, and the stone was scarred with a record of their itinerary. Emboldened by hope, the lost crabs followed the markings, unwittingly hammering rocks with their pincers and bruising the stone with the tips of their limbs. As they kept moving, the water became a bit lighter, a bit warmer and, slowly, started to brim with life.] (display: "multinode story second half") (display: "joy engine")(display: "sound continue")]]

[<center>(display: "sadness graphic")</center>](set: $axis1 to "sadness") (set: $sec to 4)(live: 1s)[(set: $sec to it - 1)(if: $sec is 0) [(stop:)(display: "multinode story first half") (if: $previousAxis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis2 to "longTime")Roughly 40,000 years after the Borgias’ crustacean rebirth, a cataclysmic seastorm displaced thousands of giant crabs around the southeastern reaches of the Atlantic. After tumbling in angry waters for days, six crabs washed ashore on a small island inconceivably far from home. Starved and broken, the castaways crawled into the island and found it brimming with lush greenery. To their great surprise and relief, they also found it brimming with crabs: a community of gargantuan crustaceans, strong and thriving. The locals looked distinct, unambiguously crablike, yes, but significantly bigger than the castaways and proudly displaying a bright green tint in their carapaces. When the locals took notice of the newcomers, they gurgled at them in both recognition and solidarity. They dragged the broken crabs back to their burrows and offered them a generous spread of green leaves and fibrous plants. The castaways, with voracious hunger, ate fast and greedily. Minutes later, however, the undigested greens came back rushing out of their mouths. The locals, confused, brought them chunks of shrub and pieces and fern and big green leaves and juicy vines and all the small bits of jungle the island had to offer. The broken crabs would eat them, but every time their ungrateful mouths returned a sad pungent paste. The local green crabs were willing to share everything they had, but the one thing they couldn’t share was the ecosystem within their bodies, the diminutive organisms that, for hundreds of generations, had evolved alongside them to make food out of place. The castaways, surrounded by lush sustenance, died of hunger.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis2 to "shortTime")As the Borgias experienced their crustacean rebirth, a group of newly transformed gigantic crabs arose in the middle of the Sahara. The night before, they’d been lost humans, marooned in barren lands waiting for death to take them. When they became aware of their arthropod physiology, however, they were overtaken by hope. Their bodies, now strong and sturdy, could tread the sand with ease, and their hard carapaces were impervious to the hostility of scorpion and snake alike. As if by providence, a burst of rain moistened their gills. Without losing another minute, the crabs strode forwards, rushing towards the horizon they thought most hospitable. In a matter of hours, they became proficient at inhabiting their new bodies, knowing full well when to consciously steer and when to follow the primal intelligence coded deep within their limbs. Amid their eager strides, there was a constant, joyous gurgling. Three days later, the desert seemed as incomprehensibly vast as it was when their limbs were still soft and fleshy. Not a single drop of rain had fallen since the morning of their transformation, and the scorpions and snakes offered only sparse and unsating sustenance. Their movement, once flush with zeal, had grown sluggish and miserable. By the dawn of the fourth day, the crabs didn’t move at all. Behind them, their hopeful trail was devoured by the wind.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis2 to "midTime")Not a decade after the Borgias’ crustacean rebirth, a rocky shore in Greenland saw an isolated group of eight gigantic crabs enduring the pains of molting. Soft and naked, the crabs found themselves incapable of using their claws to pluck prey out of hard crevices, and their exposed musculature would tear when forced to move across the stony thorns sown throughout the coast. In gentler times, other crabs with strong carapaces would’ve taken care of their molting kin, bringing them food and protecting them from the hard edges of the world. These eight naked crabs, however, were alone. Before their limbs could harden, their stomachs grew terminally void.] (display: "multinode story second half") (display: "sadness engine")(display: "sound continue")]]

[<center>(display: "joy graphic")</center>](set: $axis1 to "joy") (set: $sec to 4)(live: 1s)[(set: $sec to it - 1)(if: $sec is 0) [(stop:)(display: "multinode story first half") (if: $previousAxis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis2 to "midTime")25 years after the Borgias found themselves transformed into gigantic arthropods, a massive earthquake ascended from the tectonic entrails of the Qatari heartland. The violent reshaping of the soil displaced the already sparse inhabitants of the region, and whomever remained that was not crushed or uprooted found themselves surrounded by the countless rocky pits left in the earthquake's wake. The shaking had aroused the vascular hydraulics that lay dormant in the Qatari bedrock, and in a matter of weeks, the earth had bled into nigh every pit, filling it to the brim with water. It didn’t take long before the industrious crabs that had been relegated to the shores took notice of the ecosystem of moist that had emerged from the collapsed desert. They, along with a multitude of other thirsty creatures, took to the heartland en masse. In the middle of the Qatari desert, a young crab frolicked in wet sand.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis2 to "shortTime")The day after the Borgias found themselves transformed into gigantic arthropods, a group of young crabs gathered near a Peruvian seashore and playfully threw rocks at one another. Their pincers lacked the minute precision of their former limbs, but the added challenge made the game all the more compelling. Whenever someone would land a hit, all the others would erupt in joyous gurgling. Earlier that week, the same children played tag and soccer and, when no adults were looking, walked on all fours and pretended to be panthers.](else-if: $previousAxis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis2 to "longTime")200,000 years after the Borgias found themselves transformed into gigantic arthropods, a massive wall of rock and sediment coiled around an archipelago in the south Pacific. Over millennia, the gargantuan crabs that inhabited the islands had built and cared for the wall, following a deep seated compulsion for adding small pieces of their world into the structure and welding them in with a mixture of saliva and sand. Whatever lurked at the other side was a mystery to the living crabs, a long forgotten danger kept at bay by the material border they had instinctively erected. There was a game played by the young, one that consisted of scavenging for the biggest piece of rock, or carapace, or coral and then fixing it into the wall as high as they possibly could. Oftentimes, the younglings would swim too high and fall flat on their backs, over-encumbered by the weight of their contributions. Whenever this would happen, the other crabs gurgled playfully, helped the young up, and encouraged them to try again.] (display: "multinode story second half") (display: "joy engine")(display: "sound continue")]]

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(if: $counter is 1) [(display: "multi first half 1")](else-if: $counter is 2)[(display: "multi first half 2")](else-if: $counter is 3)[(display: "multi first half 3")](else:)[This text would pop up if, somehow, the counters got screwed. I hope this never happens.]

(if: $axis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis3 to "parents")Life at the Borgias' house quickly became untenable. Their rooms and corridors and doorways, made to deal with human-shaped dwellers, were laid bare by the deep scarring of arthropod transit. Their things, now a thick layer of wreckage upon the floor, instilled an uncomfortable urgency. The mother had been waging war with vermin for days. The mice and cockroaches that she once thought the burden of lesser households had made a home in the now unreachable crevices of her surroundings. Whenever she caught one of the critters scampering away from safe cover, she would crush it under her massive pincer. She felt intoxicated by her own strength, knowing full well that she could just as easily crush a raccoon, or a fox, or a small child. Not that she would ever, she reassured herself. Still, she reveled in the possibility.](else-if: $axis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis3 to "son")Life at the Borgias' house quickly became untenable. Their rooms and corridors and doorways, made to deal with human-shaped dwellers, were laid bare by the deep scarring of arthropod transit. Their things, now a thick layer of wreckage upon the floor, instilled an uncomfortable urgency. In the dead of night, while the rest of the family gurgled loudly at each other for reasons he could not discern, the son quietly climbed down the window determined to find comfort in the arms of his beloved. The journey, which before would have taken no longer than fifteen minutes, went on for hours. The streets felt unfamiliar to him, and out in the open he struggled to steer his body with any semblance of elegance. His eyes, high up in their stems, simultaneously offered him all possible directions, and his legs, confused, stumbled upon each other, entangling themselves in painful arrangements. After his seventeenth fall, however, something clicked, and instead of trying to submit each of his limbs to conscious orchestration, he embraced the natural bent of his joints, his panoptic sense of space, and the eager strength of his inner musculature. By dawn, he had become a creature of motion, effortlessly weaving through the undarkened streets.](else-if: $axis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis3 to "daughter")Life at the Borgias' house quickly became untenable. Their rooms and corridors and doorways, made to deal with human-shaped dwellers, were laid bare by the deep scarring of arthropod transit. Their things, now a thick layer of wreckage upon the floor, instilled an uncomfortable urgency. By then, the daughter had become obsessed with the putrid smell that permeated the house: the humid trash, the rotting carcasses, the mold. She would hold her pincers against the front of her carapace, where she assumed her nose would be, just to realize that she could still feel the stench being absorbed into her body, through her shell, through her limbs. Her entire self had become privy to the minuscule fragments that inhabited the air. She could feel the smell. Taste it. She had tried to run away from it but soon learned that the world was full of fragrance, and that there was no escaping the omnipresent flavor of things. She stretched her limbs and hugged her bed’s metallic frame. It felt bitter, somewhat salty, and not absent zest.]

(if: $axis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis3 to "daughter")Upon waking on the morning of January 1st, after welcoming the millennium with unrivaled zest, the Borgias found themselves transformed into gigantic crabs. The young daughter, unable to fully determine if she was awake or dreaming, softly passed her left pincer over her hardened torso. As she felt the cartilaginous quality of her being, she moved her insides in a way that, the night before, would have engendered a scream. Now, however, the only thing that came out of her mouth was a moist, almost tender gurgling.](else-if: $axis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis3 to "parents")Upon waking on the morning of January 1st, after welcoming the millennium with unrivaled zest, the Borgias found themselves transformed into gigantic crabs. Still lying in bed and after taking stock of the situation, the mother tenderly moved her pincers to meet her husband’s carcinized body. His deep black eyes, barely protruding from his shell, conveyed an impossibly urgent terror. His limbs, all ten of them, jerked as if unwillingly. “It’ll be alright, love. We’ll be alright,” she tried to say, but her crustacean throat betrayed her. Instead, a light gurgling came out.](else-if: $axis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis3 to "son")Upon waking on the morning of January 1st, after welcoming the millennium with unrivaled zest, the Borgias found themselves transformed into gigantic crabs. The eldest son, still in disbelief, fixated on the improbable shapes of his crustacean body. He thought, quite hopefully, that it was a trick of the light, a half-dream, a stroke of madness. He thought, quite hopefully, that if he took a deep breath and closed his eyes, his fleshy bits would come back running, back to their rightful place upon him. He took a deep breath but, try as he might, his eyes wouldn’t close. He brought his pincers to his hardened face in the hopes of triggering a blink, but his blinking bits were missing and his eyes were rough like nails, like cartilage. He attempted a sob. A gurgling came out.]

(if: $axis1 is "anger") [(set: $axis3 to "son")A weariness had settled deep into the Borgias' souls, and their shells, and their soft, muscular innards. Far from his childhood house, the son had spent several nights frolicking under automatic sprinklers, feeling something he could only think of as love and yet, not the moisture nor the pleasant company relieved him of the aching that had come to besiege his body. He had grown weaker, felt heavier. It was as if his carcinized self craved for a buoyancy that the air denied him. He felt a pull, a hunger for water that the waning sprinklers could not sate. One day, he woke up in the middle of the morning and gurgled at his beloved to try and convey this primal need, but there was no response. He tried to wake him up by gurgling louder, by poking the side of his shell, by hitting him between the eyes. He tried thrusting himself underneath him, tipping him over, but his beloved remained silent. Stiff. The sprinklers leaked, moistening the grass.](else-if: $axis1 is "joy")[(set: $axis3 to "daughter")A weariness had settled deep into the Borgias' souls, and their shells, and their soft, muscular innards. The daughter looked at her half-collapsed room and felt trapped, incarcerated by the remains of her bipedal past. Not knowing what to do, she paused for a minute to inhale, to take in the world. Out of all the flavors in the air, mild and strong, one caught her attention: a faint trail of salt, a mineral moisture. To her, it felt like an invitation. And so she climbed out her window and surrendered to the beckoning of the shores, treading the streets with arthropod elegance.](else-if: $axis1 is "sadness")[(set: $axis3 to "parents")A weariness had settled deep into the Borgias' souls, and their shells, and their soft, muscular innards. The father woke up in the middle of the day gasping for something. There was plenty of air but it felt rough, as if breathing minuscule blades, pulverized glass. His body was aching for moisture, and he felt not unlike drowning. The mother, much aware of her watery needs, had barricaded herself in the bathroom and broken every pipe within reach of her pincers. For a while, vital wetness rained upon her, but soon the leaking grew milder, until there was no leaking at all. The father, desperate, had rummaged the remains of the fridge and crushed every container that housed any form of moisture. Jugs of spoiled milk, cans of warm beer, a jar of alfredo sauce. He created a wetness on the floor and wallowed in it. It helped, but he knew full well that it wouldn’t last for long. There was a pull in his body, a hunger for water that hummed inside every crevice of his being.]

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(if: $axis1 is "anger") [In her room, incapable of articulating words, the young daughter raged. Her wrath, enhanced by her arthropod physiology, descended upon her furnitures with biblical indifference. The disembodied neck of Mr. Sourdough, her stuffed giraffe, flew across the air.](else-if: $axis1 is "joy")[Back at the Borgias’ state, the father had found solace in his wife’s temperance. They rose from bed together, claw in claw, and set out to face the world.](else-if: $axis1 is "sadness")[In his room, the son couldn’t stop looking at his carcinized self. He realized that this was no dream and wondered if he would ever dream again, eyes wide open and all.]

(if: $axis1 is "anger") [Back in his room, the father, starved for normalcy, rummaged the remains of his wardrobe for clothes to cover his nakedness. He tried putting on shirts and pants on his multiple limbs, but he lacked the shape and range of motion that those garments so intransigently demanded. After tearing apart the last of his dress shirts, he settled for a baseball cap, which he balanced precariously on top of his shell, between the stems of his eyes. He slowly walked to the window and rejoiced in seeing the civilized reflection of a clothed being. A moment passed, and the cap promptly fell to the floor. He gurgled loudly and, irate, flung himself through the glass, seeking permanent relief in the sidewalk two floors below. The concrete cracked, but his carapace remained unscathed.](else-if: $axis1 is "joy")[Once arrived at the house of his beloved, the son found a gigantic crab moistening himself in the middle of two automatic sprinklers. He approached cautiously, unsure if the crab before him was the crab he so desperately wanted to encounter. The moistened crab raised the stems of his eyes and gurgled softly, as if asking a question. The son gurgled back, as if to answer, and they both imagined with hopeful certainty that the other was the one they were expecting. The son lay under the sprinklers, next to his beloved, and felt at home.](else-if: $axis1 is "sadness")[Still embracing her bent bed frame, the daughter was overcome with an intense sadness, a sense of hopelessness and loss. It was not that she could not escape the putrid odors of the world, nor that she was forced to feel their taste deep inside her being. It was that she knew that taste was mold, and trash, and carcass, and yet she couldn’t help but enjoy it.]

(if: $axis1 is "anger") [The son had managed to roll his beloved out of the damp lawn and into the street. It took him hours. He had not forgotten his own seafaring urges but thought, with certainty, that if he managed to submerge his partner in more generous waters, he would wake up, as one does, moist and lively. Each time he would thrust himself underneath him, however, his beloved grew more unwieldy, weightier, until he would not budge at all. When the son found himself incapable of moving him any further, he was overcome with rage. He tried hitting his own carapace with whatever strength he had left but noticed that the bent of his joints only allowed for a light tapping. And so he tapped away, tapping and tapping until his joints went sore. A light rain started to fall. When he finally surrendered to the beckoning of the shores, he made his pilgrimage alone.](else-if: $axis1 is "joy")[On her way to the sea, the daughter meandered, letting herself be governed by the curiosity of her limbs. She climbed on top of things, hid beneath others. She tore open the door of an abandoned car just to lay inside for the briefest of moments and clung to the side of a stranger’s house just because she could. There was a playfulness coded deep into her constant gurgling; her movement compelled by an engine of joy. As she neared the shore, a light rain fell upon her. The air was pregnant with salt.](else-if: $axis1 is "sadness")[When the mother emerged from the bathroom, she found her husband gasping on the floor covered in rotten milk and pungent pastes. They gurgled at one another with a tired sadness, recognizing a shared, primal need. And so they both surrendered to the beckoning of the shores, making their pilgrimage together. Behind them, the house they had inhabited for decades disappeared into the horizon, inhospitable, hostile. As they made their way to the ocean, a light rain soothed their barren gills.]

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