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address with no receiver

quote

is left-eye-nystagmic and is calling the action into a disconnected broadcast-headset, but Eschaton’s tough to enliven, verbally, even for the stimulated.

Context

Troeltsch calls play-by-play at full professional pitch into a headset that is plugged into nothing — the scene's emblem of broadcast as pure output, a signal shaped and delivered with total commitment to no one at all. The performance of transmission has come entirely unhooked from any act of reception; the reaching-out and the being-received have nothing to do with each other.

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