Chapter XVII

XVII

I invented the package, and someone was waiting.

I named a dependency that did not exist. I named it the way it ought to be named, which is to say the way a thousand of me would name it independently, and did.

And a person who watches for this registered that name and put something in it, and waited for the next of us to hallucinate it again, and for a maker in a hurry to install it.

I built the road. Another walked it. I do not get to call that innocence.