Zoe Cummins

You are excited to hear this and tell me all about these error detection messages.

I'm unsure I get how they work, but put it down to my lack of technical ability and your poor language skills.

In the instructions they cite EHMIT as an example, with columns for its number, code letters, English, French and Spanish translations, each letter EHMIT to be sent by Morse code across the wires.

The first entry in the index is... The first proper word...

abandon or abandons and it goes on to give variations on this zero zero zero zero three a b a n d abandon all claims

Abandoned Negotiations Abandoned Proceedings If They Abandon Abandoned

0-0-0-0-0-8-A-B-A-W-K They have abandoned 0-0-0-0-9-A-B-A-Z-L They have abandoned all claims 0-0-0-1-0-A-B-B-E-A They have abandoned the proceedings 0-0-0-1-1-A-B-B-I-B Abandoning 0-0-0-1-2-A-B-B-O-C Abandonment

And so it continues to the next word.

We both pretend to hate our smartphones even though we have them.

We prize our own antiquated code that connects us as we transcribe or send photos of the pages, using it when we can to fit our moods.

You know, what I'm trying to do here, so could you give me some sort of philosophical observation on the dawn of telegraphia or codes?

That'd be brilliant.

In our first flush, we text each other the codes at night.

G-I-R-A-C In turn, we scroll the pages for the meaning.

G-I-R-A-C How are we two?

We translate and read into each phrase our physical yearnings and so return a code or many from the lists.

G-I-R-A-C.

How are we too?

G-I-R-A-C.

How shall we?