Hugh Brakey

And the suggestion is that these whispers are treacherous but also lethal.

Yes, so this is the letter that Robbie, our Robbie that we're living with and we're reading about right now, is writing to his future self that is about to become.

And it's similar but a little different to the same type of letter that the predecessor Robbie wrote to him.

And so what Robbie is trying to do is he's trying to explain the situation to his future self.

He's also trying to comfort his future self.

He knows what it's like to be in that situation, to have forgotten everything, to not know the world you're in or who you are within that world.

And he's trying to inculcate in that future self all of the values and all of the strategies that he's found for being able to survive in his life.

some that were passed to him from his past self and some that he's found for himself.

He's trying to inculcate all of those into his new self, even as he tries to comfort that new person and tell him, it's okay, we've been here before, I've been here before, we can get through this together.

Yeah, probably a few different things.

I just like them.

I like what they can do visually.

So I think it becomes increasingly creative and beautiful as Robbie's working on his project.

I like them in a tactile sense.

I like them, you know, like Mahjong tiles.

They're nice just to be around, to be touching and using.

But as well, it was...

It was, I think, a nice symbol of the life that Robbie has, that he has to go to all of this trouble to create something that is meaningful and something that is worthwhile, knowing full well that it will eventually all fall down, that everything that he's creating is immensely fragile.

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