Interview 65 – Fred Duncan:
I have to keep my mind tight. Sometimes it starts to unravel and I see the stars and then I see myself, and then I can’t see anything. I keep my mind bound fast; I don’t let it get out. That way, I can see myself.

Sometimes I talk to people and they try to let their minds out. They try to talk about not-themselves, and they talk about how they’re not robots. They throw their mind as hard as they can and talk about what it brings back. I can’t talk to these people. I don’t like these people.

I bind it up with string so hard it turns purple. I think about things like movies and politics and the people down the street, and I fit in so nicely with them. I have a little section that looks pretty big with my mind so stuck in a box.

Sometimes I make my mind too small and I see my body. I see my body and I see my brain and I see my organs and my atoms. That’s as bad as making my mind too big; then I look too big. I feel like the universe, then.

Sometimes I hear someone screaming.