Dream Log #008: Agora, absurd allegory

Yiou Wang
1 min readJun 25, 2023
Babel Tower Generative Series, by Yiou Wang. yiouwang.org

At first, nothing was on that agora. Gradually piles of dirt accumulated.

Then, the first homeless guy slept on the step.

Then, skyscrapers erected around the agora, where inside their ground floor retail glass windows accumulated piles of paper prints that turned to trash.

Earl Ricardo told the nurse: Stop this life you’re living, Marry me, and I’ll give you a better life.

The nurse held up her cell phone in his nose and recorded it all into a video

which she livestreamed to her Internet fans while saying: I’ll never be tricked by earls like you.

while she dodged, and revealed Earl Simons behind her.

Oh! No wonder. It has been said that she was engaged to Earl Simons.

Earl Ricardo, in a rage of jealousy, put out a gun and shot Earl Simons.

Then the agora was gradually abandoned by people and eventually reduced to a wasteland.

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