by the bye.

Let’s be zeros and ones.
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Can I be one?
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Yes. I’m zero, then.
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Don’t be so… binary.
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I once tried to be something else. The square root of some non-square.
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And how was it?
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Very disturbing. All was blurred, customary concepts warped, irrationals lurking around incommensurable corners.
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Being a square root’s scary.
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Absurd, I’m telling you.
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I’m still one, right?
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Sure. Long as I’m zero.