Jacob Lawrence, "Dreams No. 1," 1965
Jacob Lawrence, Dreams No. 1 (1965)
Can a Game Be Literature?

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October 31, 2011:

FBI Academy. Superiors are female, everyone's dressed well, expensive, like actresses and actors on a movie set. Your hand is up for a question, but the presenter rolls her eyes, makes a motion with one hand like Moses parting the Red Sea, says, No questions from this side of the room. Shrugging, you remove your badge, say I resign, walk away to the sound of gasps. Rewind. It's a tactical exercise, you've completed your penetration of lax security, so: BANG, you trigger flash bombs and run. Would be dramatic to crash shoulder-first through the plate glass windows. Land on the courtyard below, scale the fence, run.