I imagine {n} seated at a too small desk, squinting, peering into an obsolete, undersized screen. She reads me with a furrowed brow, her eyes straining to make-out the dithered type. I am eroded by my passage through the network, my face is altered at this remote terminal. Still, {n} recognizes me as she imagines {i} seated at a too small desk, squinting, peering into an obsolete, undersized screen. {i} organizes {n}, pieces (a [{n}|on]) together. She is less (t)here than she is (t)here. {n} is (t)here and elsewhere.

We construct dual remote Others for ourselves, in local space -- in private. The image, the body and being of {n} is a collation of data fragments, a hybrid imaginary-informational [sub|ob]ject. I am less (t)here than (t)here. I am a ruin -- a romance of scant evidence and speculation. {n} continues the medi(t)ation, and when I am (t)here {i} is more than myself through this interVention of {n}.

It seems I don't know {n} at all. She remains foreign to my habitat. The body simulated through the apparatus takes the form of the terminal. The terminal to which {i} is attached. The apparatus facilitates the appearance (e-piphany) of an approximate {n} in proximity to myself -- while also allowing an approximate {i} in proximity to {n}. We are never where we seem to each other, always remote -- though {i} would never know it -- more device than self. We only ever meet face to interface.

Though {i} is remotionally attached to {n}, I remain in local space. I nurture the e-lationship remotely. Space [(t)here to (t)here] is flattened, hidden and missed as the subtext of desire is transceived.