Zoe Cummins

In fact, there's no word in my book for mad, lunatic, strange or crazy.

Just plain, straight-thinking words.

Note for episode one of communication, I've just opened the Marconi books and this is on the first page.

In the event of you receiving a message containing a mutilated code word taken from the supplement, then a reference to this index will assist you to rectify and decode the mutilated word.

All truth needs a code to unravel it.

Our own code starts without verbal communication.

No mutilated words.

No real words at all.

You're Spanish and I'm Irish.

You don't know my backstory.

I keep that coded for a long time.

Unpicking the obvious, I can reach as far back as the walks we took together just after we met, when we bought the words that would deliver us to the end.

We walked right across town.

One of the many trips to explore the city's limits.

The apartment complexes, stoplights, churches, crossings, traffic lurching its way across town.

We passed thousands of people those days.

But what any of them looked like, any single one, I forget.

We find the books browsing in rugs to rhinos on the Haralds Cross Road.

We pay 60 euros for each copy and we're delighted with each other.

They span both our worlds of data and audio and connect us.