"Infinite Quisp" (an excerpt)...
Napken walked down Eastern Avenue, which ran parallel to Western Avenue. Visitors to the town sometimes found this amusing, but, if you asked them, they had difficulty articulating why. Big City thinking, the locals would say...
A man at the corner in a blue suit impatiently smoked a cigarette while waiting for the light to change from red to green. Napken stopped beside him, then put a candy cigarette to his lips and nodded, not unlike the way a pigeon nods. The man in the blue suit turned and looked at Napken with a blank expression. Blank eyes, blank mouth, a blanket of nothing. A default setting. Napken tried to exhibit a blank expression in return, but discovered that he couldn't do it: his expression was that of a man trying to do a blank expression, which is noticeably different...
I am Laslo.
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