"I click and click.
Then, quite out of nowhere, the strangest thing.
A RUclips video.
I click, of course.
I seem to be looking at a press conference of some kind, or perhaps a board meeting.
A young man, stood in front of a projector screen, gesticulating and talking. The sound is too rough and too quiet to make out what he’s saying, even with the volume turned right up.
Behind him, slides flick from left to right. From left to right.
It’s hypnotic.
A series of vivid black-and-white tableaux.
A skyscraper of glass. The dark, still surface of a pond.
An animal of some kind, shaggy and crude, its glassy eye gazing into the camera, shifting up and down with heavy, frightened breaths.
Perhaps it isn’t a...