"Fill in his backstory," she tells them. "He was never married. Relocate him to where I'll never find him, incinerate all the evidence, then report to me for surgical memory erasure. I'll do myself last."
Gauss looks as if he has an object…"It's a challenge," Wheeler admits, brightly.
"No, I mean it's chaotic. It's unlistenable."
"I can play anything you like," Wheeler states.
Hutchinson appears to spend a moment considering this possibility. "Bach. You can play some Bach?…"I'm sorry." Wheeler opens his eyes again. He gestures at the mayhem from which they just escaped, the fire door and everything it leads to. It's all still down there. "You've seen worse than this?"
Hutchinson, again, says nothing.
"What …
Hutchinson
fictional · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Hutchinson appears as a taciturn, observant figure in what seems to be a narrative about technological or organizational breakdown, witnessing chaos and catastrophe with minimal commentary. The excerpts suggest he functions in the readings as a character embodying the detached witness or arbiter position—someone who registers systemic failure (chaos, fire, memory erasure protocols) without intervention or explanation, raising questions about complicity and silence in technological systems. His reticence and aesthetic preferences (Bach) position him as a possible counterpoint to the instrumental rationality driving the surrounding violence and disorder.
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