Play Track One
(a label tied on the phone with string)
1 minute 15 to the door of the Windle Building. Track One goes:
VOICE 1: Pick us up. Leave this room and walk out the door into the air. Turn right and walk around the wall of this building then cross the car park to come to the front door of the Windle Building. There, look for a sign.
VOICE 2: It's like, a beautiful thing I suppose, I just think it's beautiful. I know people might be like appalled and mortified, or some people want something to remember and stuff, or like a place to visit, but that kind of fades into insignificance compared to what you might be doing. I mean, because of what you do, maybe something happens for someone else to make it okay for them or whatever, or like I suppose changes the world even. Like we are what we are, and that's all, and you can go on and on about theory and science and ideas and hypotheses and whatever, you can do seminars and experiments and stuff but at the end of the day we just are. We just are. You can't get away from it. And to know that, and like to have the compassion and the awareness to know what that means for other people, YOU, what YOU are, for other people... Anyway I just think it's beautiful. And there is something, at the end I mean. There's something.
Sign on Windle Bin: a label again
Walk through the door
Play Track Two
(Do not be afraid)
40 sec to Corridor door
VOICE 1: Go up the stairs. At the top, look for a sign.
VOICE 2: ...a sense of, rising or ascending or something. A sense...of fading...or something [voice fades]...of turning...turning into...it's beautiful...and breaths to 40
Sign: another label on door handle, and an arrow pointing to it somewhere else (made of gauze or swaddling cloth, or a hand like an olden sign, or a miniature:
Open the door
Play Track Three
(I go before you always)
Track Three: 23 sec to classroom door
VOICE 1: walk towards the end. Do not look back. Look for a sign.
VOICE 2: ...it was never what I expected. People talked about walking into the light and things, it was a bit that way I suppose, but it was different. I cant explain it, I can't...I want to be able to say what it is, so much, because there's nothing wrong, there's no...nothing. It's so different...do you see it? Do you see the sign yet?
Sign: a label on classroom door handle and an arrow somewhere else pointing to it
Go inside
Complete the test paper
assigned to you
(Come, follow me)
Time for completion: final seconds.
Answer truthfully and to the best of your ability. All answers carry equal weight.
Describe the human vessel in its components, actions and activities. How has it compared?
Which of the actions of this vessel would you say has been the most efficacious?
Which of the actions have been most pleasurable?
Which of the actions have been most regrettable?
Which never-performed action is most regrettable?
Other comments/supplementary information:
You may bring your paper with you for the next part.
Play Track Four
(And I will give you rest)
Two breaths, slow, hesitant.
VOICE 1: Leave through the door you did not enter by and continue on your journey. At the end, look for a sign. Look for all the signs.
VOICE 2: breaths continue to end, on and on and on and on. Let them stop at a point when they are gathered around the body.
VOICE 1: When you are ready, choose your instrument and make your first incision.
I lie on the floor in the centre. A length of swaddling cloth over my face. On it is written what is below. My right arm revealed to the elbow. In each palm I hold knives and markers.
I don't know if I could choose a day, or a thing. There was so much. And it doesn't just come back like a film, like people say. I think sun, mostly. Just the sun.