Ginsberg is not amused.

[just_displaced]

Now look, just because you think my mustache is "funny"...

[He completes this disdainful comment with dramatic air quotes.]

... doesn't mean I'm a funny guy. You know that. I'm actually pretty serious. I like the name you've chosen for me. It fits. Very existential. I'm not sure if anyone at SCDPCGC -- is that what we're calling it now? I can't keep track. Sounds like a shady law firm no matter how you organize the letters -- gets it.

[A pause.]

What do you mean, "gets what?" Gets it. It's a figure of speech. A phrase. Are you high right now?

[A longer pause.]

You're not high? That's a first. Not for you, I mean. For the people I spend my time around these days. Come to think of it, though, this is pretty weird. Did you get me high?

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[just_displaced]

So come up with something better! Go down there and name it whatever you want. Put your own sign up. Who's going to stop you?

[denokandafaran]

Lack of creativity, probably.

[just_displaced]

You could hire someone. There're a lot of people out there looking for work like that. Creative work.

[denokandafaran]

Wonder if there's any back where I'm at.

[just_displaced]

Probably. Creative types usually have questionable fashion sense and dubious social skills. Look for one of those.

[denokandafaran]

Why questionable fashion sense?

[just_displaced]

Something about all that creative energy, I guess. Makes them do weird things.

[denokandafaran]

Could be. Does it make you do weird things?

[just_displaced]

Sure. I'm here right now, aren't I? Talking to people I don't even know, acting like this is normal or something.

[denokandafaran]

Might be normal. It seems pretty normal.

[just_displaced]

There's nothing normal about this. Look around you. Where are we?

[denokandafaran]

Nowhere? Everywhere? I've been nowhere before.

[just_displaced]

You can't be nowhere. By its very definition, even nowhere is somewhere, right? If you can be there?

[denokandafaran]

Nowhere charted, then.

[just_displaced]

Yeah? What was it like? Did you chart it? Is is somewhere now?

[denokandafaran]

I didn't. But I didn't have paper. Or anything like that.

[just_displaced]

Okay, so, in your expert opinion, then, is this nowhere or everywhere?

[denokandafaran]

Lets go with everywhere. Everywhere seems appropriate, given how many people are here.

[just_displaced]

Yeah, okay, everywhere.

[A pause.]

So how do we get back home?

[denokandafaran]

You should go home once your 'writer' is bored with you. Unless you're in a 'game'.

[just_displaced]

Wait, wait. A 'game'?

[denokandafaran]

Someplace they send you, so they can see how you'd react. What you'd do. Like, if they sent you to a prison ship, or if they sent you to an old west town in outer space.

[just_displaced]

So it's an experiment? Like they're... they're testing us? Like we've got no rights?

[denokandafaran]

Something like that. It beats alien abduction, I'll tell you that much.

[just_displaced]

Has that actually happened to you? Alien abduction?