“Having renounced the efficacies of email and private couriers, the patrons wait patiently on line.”

“After several years of play, the odds turn against him…. The game is over and the phone ceases to function.”

“In his short and brutal life, Ouquet had never been to a contemporary dance performance.”

“The sound of his cough is captured by a microphone and instantaneously transmitted via fiber-optic cable…”

It’s a desperate attempt to avoid confronting the solemn act of eating: the violence involved in the killing of living things and the brutish discharge of biological need.