“I come from the future – your future – and I need me to do something for me”
“Are you playing the pronoun game on yourself?”
“Who’d better to? Nevertheless – neverdeleuze – I need you to do something. It’s very small, it won’t take up much of your time, and the benefits will be immense when the time comes”
“Sounds like it would be in my best interest to listen. What am I supposed to do?”
“I need you to add the line ‘, as is common in economies of jouissance’ to page 242 of the thing you’re writing now”
“…the thing is only 70 pages so far”
“Right, yes, of course. The writing process and all that. Let’s see. It would be the section on Star Trek and how it relates to contemporary culture. After the detailed examination of the slashfics surrounding-“
“I know the part. Wherein?”
“Let’s see – ah, here, before the Klingon mating rituals but after the Romulan political machinations”
“So what does that sentence fragment even mean?”
“I have no idea, but good things will come out of it being there. Trust me – I’m you”
“Hold up. Are you from a future where I put in that fragment, or one where I didn’t?”
“Sorry, time’s up. Remember what I said!”
More longer friend see that sky? 