Anonymous: Good evening Sally.
Nighttime13: Hi.
Anonymous: You might be wondering why you are here.
Nighttime13: You could say that…
Anonymous: Ask yourself why you are here.
Nighttime13: You requested that I log into this site.
Anonymous: Do you do everything that is requested of you?
Nighttime13: Leave me alone! I don’t want anything to do with you!
Anonymous: Keep telling yourself that.
Nighttime13: Stop harassing me. I could call the police you know.
Anonymous: Oh, but you shall miss out on all the fun. Besides, I know you will not.
Nighttime13: You don’t know anything… But since we’re here, there’s something I want to ask you…
Anonymous: Do proceed.
Nighttime13: The other night you said you wanted to touch me through time, what did you mean? What do you want from me!?
Anonymous: Let me say there is a space that we can touch, but that is not necessarily tangible. A similar example might be something like ‘cyberspace’ – you are there, I am here. But together we are somewhere.
Nighttime13: Why do you want to touch me? It’s weird.
Anonymous: I want to because you want me to.
Nighttime13: I do not!
Anonymous: You are aching to get out. To live what you live inside. This is your chance.
Nighttime13: My chance for what?
Anonymous: Stop asking questions you know the answers to!
Nighttime13: ?!
Anonymous: Have you ever heard of the fantasy tense?
Nighttime13: Tense as in present, past, and future?
Anonymous: Yes.
Nighttime13: No.
Anonymous: It is the world spent in your head – that coexists and blends itself with the present, past, and future. The tense we are simultaneously living as we live. That flashes in and out in fragments.
Nighttime13: You’re puzzling me.
Anonymous: Right. Like a puzzle of a world visible only to you and those you choose to share it with.
Nighttime13: Like a secret life.
Anonymous: Something like that. Let me ask you a question – If I kill you in my fantasy, am I a criminal of the mind? If I kiss you in my fantasy are we lovers of the psyche?
Nighttime13: No!
Anonymous: Oh, but perhaps we are killers, but not criminals, and lovers, but not bound. See, there is more freedom in the fantasy tense, unlike action in the present tense, which holds us accountable. However, inside we are free to kill and love as we please. There is a world inside that is divorced of criminality and judgment, if we allow it to be so.
Nighttime13: Like anarchy?
Anonymous: Not exactly. In the fantasy tense we can do anything because the laws that govern that world work in accordance to the world of the fantasy. For example, if I want to kill someone and rejoice, then I can and it is okay, because it is in my fantasy and is permitted in the world of that momentary vision.
Nighttime13: But I’m afraid of my thoughts. They’re dark.
Anonymous: The rules that govern this present world differ from the rules that govern the world in your head. In the fantasy the only action there is that of thought. And of imagining. Think of it the same way that we think of a theory.
Nighttime13: A theory?
Anonymous: Yes, a theory is an abstract idea.
Nighttime13: Where are you going with this?
Anonymous: You know very well where I am taking you. To the place of practice. Where ideas are translated into action, into the present. Sally, may your mind run freely through the woods of your darkness. Into your dark, through your dark. Grope, cling, until you no longer can. Then let go. Let it out.
Nighttime13: Let what out?
Anonymous: Your private dick.
Nighttime13: My private dick?! What? Who are you? What do you want from me?
Anonymous: What happens when we turn you inside out? What happens when the mirror reflects your inside out? What happens when the reflection everyone thought they were looking at changes? Whatever will others think? Do you become accountable? Do you try yourself?
Nighttime13: What are you saying?
Anonymous: I am saying you are going to start living what you dream and imagine.
Nightttime13: Why?!
Anonymous: Because you are so afraid that it will be entertaining to watch you become a ruin. And because you live in your head rather than in the world. Because I want to bring you out and ruin Sally; rework her, if you will. This is an experiment – experimental living. And you are my subject. And there is a Theory of Darkness we must practice together. What good is a theory without action?
Nighttime13: You’re crazy.
Anonymous: The line between madness and brilliance is a tightrope my friend. Good night.
Nightime 13: Wait! Where are you going?
