(set: $myVar to "One")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["One", "Two", "Three"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$myVar");'>$myVar</tw-link> (set: $haircolour to "Dark")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["Dark", "Red", "Blonde", "Light"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$haircolour");'>$haircolour</tw-link> hair frames your face. [flower]<shout| (click: ?shout)[ (replace: ?shout)[daisy] ] you are sitting on a (set: $divide to "picket fence")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["picket fence", "nebulous precipice"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$divide");'>$divide</tw-link> next to a (set: $partner to "boy")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["boy", "girl", "beauty", "destroyer of worlds"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$partner");'>$partner</tw-link> dipping your (set: $limb to "toe")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["toe", "foot", "whole glorious body"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$limb");'>$limb</tw-link> into the milkiest of ways [[nice]] things are pretty nice up here twirlin' stars on your $divide kinda quiet [[yeah real nice love stars love quiet]] (if: $partner is "boy")[ (set: $pronoun to "he") ] (elseif: $partner is "girl")[ (set: $pronoun to "she") ] (elseif: $partner is "beauty")[ (set: $pronoun to "they") ] (elseif: $partner is "destroyer of worlds")[ (set: $pronoun to "the destroyer") ] hey $pronoun handed you a [flower]<flower|(click: ?flower)[(replace: ?flower)[daisy]] that was extra nice [[you're gonna pick those petals off aren't you]] (if: $pronoun is "he")[ (set: $love to "loves") ] (elseif: $pronoun is "she")[ (set: $love to "loves") ] (elseif: $pronoun is "the destroyer")[ (set: $love to "loves") ] (elseif: $pronoun is "they")[ (set: $love to "love") ] [$pronoun $love you]<petal|(click: ?petal)[(replace: ?petal)[$pronoun $love you not [$pronoun $love you]<petal2|(click: ?petal2)[(replace: ?petal2)[$pronoun $love you not [$pronoun $love you]<petal3|(click: ?petal3)[(replace: ?petal3)[$pronoun $love you not [$pronoun $love you]<petal5|(click: ?petal5)[(replace: ?petal5)[$pronoun $love you not [this blows]<petal6|(click: ?petal6)[ besides it's not like a chance-based petal system is going to tell you whether or not $pronoun actually $love you it's like you've always said: [it is precisely my body which perceives the body of another]<mpp|(click: ?mpp)[ [and discovers in that other body a miraculous prolongation of my own intentions,]<mpp2|(click: ?mpp2)[ [[a familiar way of dealing with the world]] ]]]]]]]]]]] [[ha ha yeah I guess]] anyway that $partner is [[leaning in]] anyway that $partner is leaning in [[like real close]] anyway that $partner is leaning in like real close [[like really close]] I mean, obviously you're going to say, "(set: $remark to "hey if you lean in too close my shoes are gonna fall right into this black hole")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["hey if you lean in too close my shoes are gonna fall right into this black hole", "bring it on in to smoochin town"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$remark");'>$remark</tw-link>" ...[[right?]] (if: $limb is "whole glorious body")[ (set: $limb to "whole DANG body") ] (if: $pronoun is "they")[ (set: $pronoun to "them") ] (elseif: $pronoun is "she")[ (set: $pronoun to "her") ] (elseif: $pronoun is "he")[ (set: $pronoun to "him") ] [henceforth, as the parts of my body together compromise a system,]<mpp|(click: ?mpp)[[ so my body and the others are one whole,]<mpp2|(click: ?mpp2)[[ two sides of one and the same phenomenon,]<mpp3|(click: ?mpp3)[ (text-style: "blur")[and the anonymous existence of which my body is the ever remembered trace henceforth inhabits both bodies simultaneously] [[that's what I been saying]]]]] Double-click this passage to edit it. RIGHT you do have to watch out for your $limb hanging off that $divide but you know how it goes [[I'm careful I'm careful]] (if: $remark is "hey if you lean in too close my shoes are gonna fall right into this black hole")[ (set: $kiss to "that $partner leans in so close you can smell their breath and it lights up your freckles tip to toe like a christmas tree and you burn all the way down into that puddle of stars and lose your dang shoe on the way to go and the $partner comes tumbling after") ] (elseif: $remark is "bring it on in to smoochin town")[ (set: $kiss to "you lean in bringing your nose to touch the $partner's nose and gosh dang if that nose isn't the c u t e s t nose you have ever seen and that $partner got a face like a moonbeam which makes sense out here and ooh that $partner is lighting you UP from the inside and your mouths touch in the best way (and I mean the BEST way if you know what I mean) (it's the kissing way) and your shoes come flying off and you just about lose your $limb off that $divide") ] I hope you are cos $kiss (if: $kiss is "that $partner leans in so close you can smell their breath and it lights up your freckles tip to toe like a christmas tree and you burn all the way down into that puddle of stars and lose your dang shoe on the way to go and the $partner comes tumbling after")[ (set: $end to "It's nice to exist on this physical plane together") ] (elseif: $kiss is "you lean in bringing your nose to touch the $partner's nose and gosh dang if that nose isn't the c u t e s t nose you have ever seen and that $partner got a face like a moonbeam which makes sense out here and ooh that $partner is lighting you UP from the inside and your mouths touch in the best way (and I mean the BEST way if you know what I mean) (it's the kissing way) and your shoes come flying off and you just about lose your $limb off that $divide")[ (set: $end to "I'm glad I get to touch you") ] [[gosh]] you just gotta say to $pronoun [[no matter what|nm1]] $end oh my GOD [[no matter what|nm2]] $end [[no matter what|nm3]] $end so hard I can't even start [[that's what I been sayin]] [[henceforth, as the parts of my body together compromise a system,|gosh]] [[so my body and the others are one whole,|gosh]] [[two sides of one and the same phenomenon,|gosh]] it's quiet out here in space and you are so (set: $feelings to "in love")<tw-link class='cyclingLink' data-cycling-texts='["in love", "over it"]' onclick='clickCyclingLink(this, "$divide");'>$feelings</tw-link> [[and the anonymous existence of which my body is the ever remembered trace henceforth inhabits both bodies simultaneously]] you say "“What we have is not jealousy aroused by love and exerting its own counter-influence, but a certain way of loving in which the whole destiny of that love can be discerned at a glance.”" the $partner agrees. "$end," they say who needs that $limb anyway. end