Amy Ireland Forever

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:05

  Forever, the wall rears up at an uncanny angle and folds itself suddenly inwards over my head. There's a crunch as something collides with my left temple, followed by a burst of supernatural pain which mushrooms rapidly, incoherently outwards before lodging itself someplace deep beneath the parietal bone. What was I…

• 00:02:58

  If my concentration lingers a little too long on any one feature, a whole new world blossoms out of it, like a sort of noetic zoom. I seize involuntarily on a grain of whiteness, which unfolds into a glacial landscape of grothic microtonalities. Then my attention is drawn by a peculiarity. A peculiar specificity…

• 00:05:32

  Her stubbornness has cost her a certain level of biotechnological luxury I at least had taken full advantage of. She seems old. You look younger than me now, she says, guessing my thoughts with telepathic acuity. I do? The attendant taps something into his tablet. Shit, you really are hopeless. D. Continues. The VAT…

• 00:08:02

  Hence the need for the mind, Jack. It's a memory upgrade that will ensure your sense of succession is maintained in the face of the lapses that tend to occur as a result of your life extension treatment. A large percentage of recipients experience this side effect. Unfortunately, it's just part of using experimental…

• 00:10:54

  That infinity symbol? Kind of looks like an hourglass if you turn it on its end. But they have no idea what they could be depriving us, I mean, humanity, of. This is going to change everything. Politics. Economics. Religion. It will be the greatest transformation in human history. I can feel myself warming up now. The…

• 00:13:06

  Even now, in the inclination of her neck as she peers out the window at something I can't see. Even now. Even despite her ageing face. She still looks as handsome as ever. If not, a little marshal. I take advantage of her distracted gaze to drink it all in. From her maybe-too-severe military haircut to the point just…

• 00:15:40

  I can't get up. There's a girl. She's peering down at me from somewhere far above the tops of the tall black boots. Even through the face scrambler, I can see that she doesn't mean well. I try to protest, but she's crouched right over me now, holding my head down and pressing something cold against the base…

• 00:18:20

  The sound of a magnetic lock echoes briefly in the distance, then silence. Nothing to relieve the pressure of the void, but silence. But the flutter of green-black drive lights, each corresponding to a loop of perfect gerontocrat memory, playing over and over again, forever, in the darkness.