man would hit him withthe stick. Sometimes the people were good and he would walk with them down the hall and hold their hand.
Dave would pick him up and put him on the desk and show him how the pictures on the machine lit up. Dave took his finger and they pressed each picture together and different things would happen.
The machine made milk. A small white room and a machine with lights and colours. None of it remains.
He spent his days in that small space, the Hardest of the Hard. Sometimes they put Mama in there with him. Also, for a while, they put the gentle idiot Orang in there with him. Ghoul had little interest in the machine when Orang was there for company.
Mr. Ghoul used to think of Orang.
The machine was the means by which the people taught them words. There were no words on the machine, but there were pictures which were pictures of words but not pictures of the things that the words were meant to picture.
This is an apple: Ж.
At first if he wanted an apple he learned to press that picture and the machine would give him a piece of apple. It soon became more complex. The picture for apple was in a different place on the machine one day, and the next was in yet another. Ghoul had to find the picture. And later he had to make sentences, which are the longest routes to getting what you want.
Dave would say put it in a sentence.
Please machine give apple.
Dave was in another room with a window and would communicate in the big Dave voice and then through the machine. He made Ghoul’s machine light up from the other side of the wall and Ghoul could see the pictures inside Dave.
Dave was full of questions.
? What does Ghoul want.
? What is name-of this which-is black.
And Ghoul had to answer in a certain way or Dave would not understand.
Banana give Ghoul which-is black.
That is not right.
Please machine give Ghoul banana which-is black.
He grew very tired. He tried to stay out of ¡harag! but it was sometimes much too hard. The machine was very strong and Ghoul could never smash it. He banged his goon on the wall sometimes and for a while his favourite thing was to throw Coke at the machine and listen to the fizz.
The machine was turned on by the lever marked GO. Ghoul pulled the lever and conversed with Dave and sometimes other people. They would punish him if he made a mess or if he played when they didn’t want him to play. They locked the lever so he couldn’t move it, and without the machine he could neither eat nor drink nor get tall Dave to come into the room for a tickle or a swing.
Mr. Ghoul jumped around the room, wanting chomp and not understanding a sentence. Mama wasn’t good at the machine but she knew everything Mr. Ghoul wanted. She tried to pull the machine off the wall, and nothing ever happened unless they made a dirty sentence.
Please machine put dirty cabbage outside.
Mama was a friend he wanted in those days, but they took her out of the room like Orang because he didn’t use the machine as much when she was there.
He liked Dave very much.
? What does Ghoul want.
Make Dave into room.
? Ghoul wants Dave in room.
Dave tickle Ghoul.
They would do what each other wanted, as long as Ghoul found the sentence.
The World is not the World.
He ate well. Each time he made a sentence he got a raisin or an M&M, a Coke, a coffee, a thing he can’t remember the name for. Lettuce.
He learned to love Twizzlers and vodka and smokes.
The machine did more and more.
Please machine make music.
Please Dave dance with Ghoul.
He wanted the machine to make music while he and Dave made sentences but in the earliest days the dirty machine could not. There were simple things that the words, the machine and Dave could never understand. Things in Ghoul that were part of the World.
A sentence is not a sentence without a period
Please machine make vodka sentence.
? What does Ghoul want.
Make vodka. Dave. Make sentence.
? Ghoul wants sentence or Ghoul wants vodka.
Vodka sentence
That
Dave would pick him up and put him on the desk and show him how the pictures on the machine lit up. Dave took his finger and they pressed each picture together and different things would happen.
The machine made milk. A small white room and a machine with lights and colours. None of it remains.
He spent his days in that small space, the Hardest of the Hard. Sometimes they put Mama in there with him. Also, for a while, they put the gentle idiot Orang in there with him. Ghoul had little interest in the machine when Orang was there for company.
Mr. Ghoul used to think of Orang.
The machine was the means by which the people taught them words. There were no words on the machine, but there were pictures which were pictures of words but not pictures of the things that the words were meant to picture.
This is an apple: Ж.
At first if he wanted an apple he learned to press that picture and the machine would give him a piece of apple. It soon became more complex. The picture for apple was in a different place on the machine one day, and the next was in yet another. Ghoul had to find the picture. And later he had to make sentences, which are the longest routes to getting what you want.
Dave would say put it in a sentence.
Please machine give apple.
Dave was in another room with a window and would communicate in the big Dave voice and then through the machine. He made Ghoul’s machine light up from the other side of the wall and Ghoul could see the pictures inside Dave.
Dave was full of questions.
? What does Ghoul want.
? What is name-of this which-is black.
And Ghoul had to answer in a certain way or Dave would not understand.
Banana give Ghoul which-is black.
That is not right.
Please machine give Ghoul banana which-is black.
He grew very tired. He tried to stay out of ¡harag! but it was sometimes much too hard. The machine was very strong and Ghoul could never smash it. He banged his goon on the wall sometimes and for a while his favourite thing was to throw Coke at the machine and listen to the fizz.
The machine was turned on by the lever marked GO. Ghoul pulled the lever and conversed with Dave and sometimes other people. They would punish him if he made a mess or if he played when they didn’t want him to play. They locked the lever so he couldn’t move it, and without the machine he could neither eat nor drink nor get tall Dave to come into the room for a tickle or a swing.
Mr. Ghoul jumped around the room, wanting chomp and not understanding a sentence. Mama wasn’t good at the machine but she knew everything Mr. Ghoul wanted. She tried to pull the machine off the wall, and nothing ever happened unless they made a dirty sentence.
Please machine put dirty cabbage outside.
Mama was a friend he wanted in those days, but they took her out of the room like Orang because he didn’t use the machine as much when she was there.
He liked Dave very much.
? What does Ghoul want.
Make Dave into room.
? Ghoul wants Dave in room.
Dave tickle Ghoul.
They would do what each other wanted, as long as Ghoul found the sentence.
The World is not the World.
He ate well. Each time he made a sentence he got a raisin or an M&M, a Coke, a coffee, a thing he can’t remember the name for. Lettuce.
He learned to love Twizzlers and vodka and smokes.
The machine did more and more.
Please machine make music.
Please Dave dance with Ghoul.
He wanted the machine to make music while he and Dave made sentences but in the earliest days the dirty machine could not. There were simple things that the words, the machine and Dave could never understand. Things in Ghoul that were part of the World.
A sentence is not a sentence without a period
Please machine make vodka sentence.
? What does Ghoul want.
Make vodka. Dave. Make sentence.
? Ghoul wants sentence or Ghoul wants vodka.
Vodka sentence
That
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