Tandy Bowen doesn't have to pick between (cloakndagger) wrote in repose,
Re: [Tandy & Holly: the good diner]
Pollock, Tandy thought of kind of like a burger place. The kind that got Instagrammed a lot, and had artistic looking milkshakes in mason jars with cake kind of smushed into the ice-cream, but when you actually had a craving for a burger you wanted to know that it was getting cooked right. He liked Rothko, which felt a little more raw than Pollock but Tandy unapologetically liked the classics for the classics. Van Gogh. Monet. Manet. All that shit. It wasn't that he was anti the refined taste of the contemporary hipster, it just adjacent to his personal preferences rather than coagulating with them.
"I'm out. I get out," Tandy managed to make it simultaneously feigned offence-taken and also an expression of the vague contentment of the somewhat familiar. This was a vintage conversation, condiments on fries and even mild ribbing for his lack of mall-collected knowledge. "Cheese fries have. But in Repose, condiments appropriate for fry consumption are restricted to mayo and ketchup. Maybe BBQ if you're in a blue kind of a mood, but that's not really catered to in a general way. You're a man of the world," Tandy deadpanned, in looking at the mess of sauces smeared over Holly's food choice.
But okay. Back to the coma. Tandy's fingers closed around his pencil like it was a minor life-line. "I don't know. If the working hypothesis is multiple instances of the same basic timeline with deviations subject to cataclysmic events or minor infractions depending on the distinctions between our basic lives, then how does the transfer work? Is it mind only, or is it physically? Because I am a case in point of physical transference, unless I am delusional. But could you transpose, without being physically displaced? Maybe you can with the way the brain works. I don't know, science is kind of shorting out on 'multiple universes', I think." Which was a lot of words. It was a vortex of garbled words that didn't catch the real seismic effect on Tandy's gut of what it meant if you could mentally shift, but get stuck physically.