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[Sho has actually been here for a week or so, now. So why hasn't he said anything?

Well, he's been sort of busy, you see.

Anyone walking into the lobby of the Libra apartment complex will be greeted with a very weird piece of modern art. Actually, it looks more like a pile of junk. Whatever junk that Sho could fit through the doors and hide. Then? He put it all together, leading to a junk pile sprouting up seemingly overnight.

And now he's showing you, dear viewer, over the network]

Hahahah! Attention, all tasteless tetrahedra of Hinoto-Ri! Behold! The best art you'll ever lay i's on! This world is garbage… so the art is garbage too! … aww shit that muffler is off by 5.4°…

[he takes some time to readjust the muffler, and then zooms in on what appears to be an old license plate with a note scribbled on it, surrounded by broken and intact lightbulbs of various sizes and styles]

"Any bulb can light up a room. I'll light up your very soul!"

You better come see it for yourselves pretty fast, 'cause I hypothesize it's going to be gone by tomorrow AM.

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You're one of those post-modernists that try to out-weird all the other artists, aren't you?

Tch! I guess if you want to file me away in easy little categories, then yeah, sure. Whatever you say, zero.

[that is to say, yes. very yes]

I'm not zero...my name's Sam.

[A slight huff.]

So, what's this all supposed to mean?

That's great. I don't care.

[he growls and then shows the junk pile again]

Can't you tell? Does everyone here have an empty-set for brains?! It's about the desolation of humanity and how there's so little light in our lives! The world is dark and empty, zero! This art represents that darkness, that emptiness, and our pathetic little attempts to light it up!

Zetta duh.

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That's...actually kind of deep, really. Never knew you could take that from a pile of...what is that, junk?

But no, I perfectly understand the message. I just...couldn't see it in another form, that's all.

Of course it's deep! Infinitely deep! Or nearing infinity, anyway. It's junk, yes. Stuff I found in alleys, dumpsters, broken down cars... The frass of humanity.

Are you just saying that so that I don't iterate you.

I think what you have is a lot, but reaching infinity is a bit farfetched, honestly.

No! No, no, I mean it! I-I don't even know what iterate means, but um, I really mean it.

Hahaha! Only if you limit your mind to the set of real numbers!

[WELL he looks... honestly surprised. And not sure what to do. He's never gotten a compliment before... ] Uh... well... [he scratches under his hat] Cool? I guess?

Does that mean I have to think about the imaginary ones as well?

[Huh, he's not used to compliments? Sam just shrugs, but he keeps that little surprised reaction for remembering later.]

What, haven't you gotten praise for your work before? Aren't you a professional?

Duh.

No, I don't get paid for this stuff! And if it did, that would cheapen it! Reduce it's value to LESS than zero! Not feeding the corporate machine, man!

Ah, so you're more of a "do it yourself" artist, aren't you?

Have you ever been in any museums? I think you could show your stuff in those without getting paid...

That's the only way to do art. The second you start doing art for other people, it makes it worthless! Zero use!

Tch. My art belongs out in the world. In the elements! No museums.

Really? But isn't he act of giving kind of nice in it's own way? But I guess I see your point...I don't know too much about art, really.

You don't want it to be confined in a building, then? What if someone complains about it being in the way, though?

I'm not giving it. If anything I'm just sharing it. Offering it for the masses to look at.

Well that's too factoring bad! I don't care if they think it's in the way. It's coordinates were picked for a specific reason.

What if somebody doesn't want you to share it and goes and destroys it? People can do that sort of thing, you know...

And what reason is that?

That's just part of the art. No object lasts indefinitely. As it was created, so it shall be obliterated. None of my installations are permanent!

Maximum traffic of the desired observers, yoctogram.

That's...deep.

[A pause.]

Maximum viewers, huh...and with you keep calling me mathematical stuff, I guess it isn't much of a stretch to say you see everything in a very mathematical way, huh?

Correct. Congratulations on being at least somewhat observant.

H-hey, I'm observant! Just a little slow, but I notice things!

Increase your mental velocity!

You say that as if I can just program it to, I'm no robot.

Then you aren't trying hard enough.

But if you try and you fail, then what's the point? Fail again?

Pah! You'll fail a million times before you get it! That's no reason to QUIT!

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