topology

sketch ::: 1706410502632

mctavish

a

handbook of codes (1938 ::: 4th edition)
corner ledger entry
creased marked stained
unsteady hand page 48
pointer to drawer 89
swiftly culled collection
quickly scrawled notation
hike knapsack specimen
slender tender
sun salutation
pale & rising leaves
slow tango
archer & the doe
deftly spun golden silk
ecstatic synthesis
snapshot
drawing sky to soil
a rhizomatic broadcast
joyful ode electric pulse

that day the hiker struck & gathered
stamped & scrawled
a description the day

flash drive
cellular recollection
slowly fading
casting of a day
plant companion
pulsing network
etched on vinyl
voice wind chorus meadow chord
a sound restated now
perhaps could permeate the ether

dynamics

breathe animate spark
pollination proliferation mineralization
green pigment chlorophyll carbon water weaving milling spinning
oxygen energy light
moment ratio cello ratio orchestra ratio choir ratio grassland ratio
wetland ratio ocean redfield ratio broken stick vibrating string
eigenvalues slanted towards instability collisional cycling
lack of continuance certain chaos
queer nonlinear signal skewed
bent

incompatible not computable indecipherable inscrutable
interval of change flux charge exchange transition evolution dynamics
flow bifurcations unbound untied
sudden cloud break asymptotic stable stillness center
an orbit a continuance a vector field exuberance
neon vibration computation geologic carbon spilled across the sea
deep beneath the surface roots shredded ancient bones past sink store archive lock
zero hero carbon sink pivot tangent steady drop

modulation

electricity insight action
poet singer cantor coder
rhythm rhyme repetition
invoke evoke circle
paper poetry storage machine (memory printed symbols space)
spoken textile poet singer living animation
electric insight action text encoded incantation
rhythm rhyme recitation circle invocation
tape magnetic pitch sound frequency modulation
transcription translation voyage
a river a boatman a coin an oar
a knapsack a shortwave radio
receiver transmitter signal
voice frequency on / off

pulse antenna alphabetic
graph glyph string
linear spline space
sequence pages spine spline
approximation map one route
one journey electric geo
route road reenactment context
devoid absent world generating physical
attention listening seeing
gaze cross sensory skull
skeletal memory echo machine
pulse current blood
sinew vinyl gramophone => radio
moment (re)creation past time
modulation frequency
(un)synchronize the clocks

hero

the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
looked back
not again before
but before that long ago once upon a long away
far away geologic layered canyon way back
glacial pressed rock far back
urgent mission
rescue resurrection
artifact storage cave recording trace
bones
fossil tooth
once again repeat again retie retry reweave again
a name uttered speak again
reclaim restore
rewind
redeem
correct

shattered glass cadenza

skeletal

electricity insight action
poet singer cantor coder
rhythm rhyme repetition
invoke evoke circle
paper poetry storage machine (memory printed symbols space)
spoken textile poet singer living animation
electric insight action text encoded incantation
rhythm rhyme recitation circle invocation
tape magnetic pitch sound frequency modulation
transcription translation voyage
a river a boatman a coin an oar
a knapsack a shortwave radio
receiver transmitter signal
voice frequency on / off

pulse antenna alphabetic
graph glyph string
linear spline space
sequence pages spine spline
approximation map one route
one journey electric geo
route road reenactment context
devoid absent world generating physical
attention listening seeing
gaze cross sensory skull
skeletal memory echo machine
pulse current blood
sinew vinyl gramophone => radio
moment (re)creation past time
modulation frequency
(un)synchronize the clocks

factory

watches for sale
circus hawker
projected image alley
film alley lamp
shadow night ink
pool found object
theater company sound
foundry sound factory
new polyphony alienation
intersections junctions
friction resolution
chords ropes sails

layers maps transects
routes destinations
vectors fields pixel web join caught number cells facts
dense matrix
sparse sky

once

why is this day unlike any other day?
this moment this view this inflection bending curve like no other
or why is this day like an other once upon a time dinosaur last-day meteorite explosion
dusty smoke-filled orange sky

or

data modeling ecosystem transcription
contour core motion
stripped down
essential form
arc distilled
abstraction
line drawn
color form shape
context seed dynamics
phase plane essence
naked mirror silhouette
skeletal moving gears

translation filter
transformation
map bait lure tackle
spinning wheel
rapunzel wizard magic fish
chutes & ladders
connection conjunction sentence
necklace
purl one
knit one
knot one
sticky spider silk
relations table entry
time stamp seal or wax

transact system
query language
row by row relation
containment category rope bind
join

day

on the afternoon of the 8th day
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
only a bird not a god
only an old sewing machine

treadle & thread
stitch back repair repair
lace prairie weave roots
pump light well bind
animate turn breathe
circulate & mend

frequency

tuning discontinuity fragmentation
multiplicity assemblage blur
distance metrics near / far this-ness
frequency instruments theory
narrow limited constrained
drawer paper file grass specimen stalk leaf root
instrument network transmission system
sensitive antenna chlorophyll swarm
body axes mapped static system structure
food chain length & flow

observe

industry(!)

stop gear
backspace

particle wave oscilloscope
rhythm beats tonal frame measure arc

sanctify
dance score action plan
syntax grammar punctuate
formula method outline theorem proof
silver set of slides
count map pulse
particles of speech
observe measure metric record journal data log
structure filter draw blueprint box
cell lattice web net moth flame
formula physics flow heat
electric gear locomotion transformation
fold reduce fix mend undo redo sew sow
archive find search echo
resonate release

of

the repairman rider passenger lone bird

grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)

left the throng of city depot
arrived alone worn suitcase sandwich lukewarm coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
rusted texaco station folded map
urgent mission
fix the system
repair reclaim rebuild reweave restore
this prairie meadow sequestration

initial

stitch
carbon cycle
back
intact
structure function
sink & source
sink & source

theory of null values
problem of null values
hollow sound
sparse matrix
initial conditions external
parameters landscape weather
bee flower pollen lit pollen wings

parts of speech sets thought
categories cages
language archive (memory tables data pollen noise)
quest voyage counting
physics web grassland sea net trophic ties traveler
gears
repair(*) rider lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
illuminate restore resurrect reweave rebreathe
trophic chain ecosystem length & breadth harmonic series
swings & orbits
collapse & chaos
dynamic state constant flux
climate nutrient cycling community structures evolution

no time now time soon time

ghosts

transformation
noise

voices tubes
moths jar
feedback electrical line static
harmonic ghosts
resonating strings
sympathetic rooms
wood wire reed sky

composer ink transmission
naked contour
wood pitch reed membrane breath line
invisible waves harmonic ladder
wire resonance strings chamber
hidden fabric
bagpipe
meadow score

&

volcanic eruptions colossal explosive summer of night
cloud of ash eternal winter sky
sublime vastness
clap of thunder
dark sky & rim of light

die cast astronomies astrologers oracles neural net forecast
summary synthesis archive copy
deductions cloudy inference pale sky dusty glass
cloud forest mist

chlorophyll inception resinous extension
oxygen production carbon-bound reduction
transfer bury sequestrate
atmospheric storage
soil archive biomass
sky writes to earth
clouds turn to grass
glass leaf snail fish
bone & soil & log

linear regression
inversion inflection
rollercoaster shift
velocity force change
approach zero
axis of gone the axe

dust bowl prairie loss

countable

layers of heaven
cardinalities
threshold probabilities
levels of possible quantum
paths
knots
countable

a lattice lash tied taut

between zero & one
infinity
countable rational salt & pepper mesh
or an uncountable irrational sea
unbroken surface
lifetime & extinction

angels birds grassland constellation

seemingly infinite => countable
2 (not many)
1 (one => zero)
abstraction reduction
trace contour
subtraction
collapse
absence
zero
ghosts

wings

us / them / ze / I
the body plural the collection the ecology of I
constellation tonal set
commutative diagram
vector pillars basis set
fire bison
microfiche
memex landscape archive

moth flame fuel
what angel whose wings which bird
tightrope perilous torch gas flight
filament neon halogen light
solar spectra halo
semisynthetic polychromatic light
harvest net gap spark
every angel every bird every fire
every light

of

faint signal pale wave slow current faraway transmission
faded recording
long ago the far away a t-cell twist like this it goes
that jukebox love song jukebox archive jukebox dance song
rusty turnstile chance song billiard dice song co2 roulette
trophic past text particles of speech
trophic cascade light water steam then ghost

corner bar stool
the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
napkin blueprints cipher curves & codes
beer-stained formula calculations configurations
phase plane transformations

before

the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
looked back
not again before
but before that long ago once upon a long away
far away geologic layered canyon way back
glacial pressed rock far back
urgent mission
rescue resurrection
artifact storage cave recording trace
bones
fossil tooth
once again repeat again retie retry reweave again
a name uttered speak again
reclaim restore
rewind
redeem
correct

shattered glass cadenza

it

it was like this every morning
every night
every afternoon
every hour every day every particle every sweep
of hand every nuclear click digital + &
watches for sale for locomotion
for steam oil coal crash

knapsack traveler nomad grazer quest pollinator pathways routes
corridors migrations disrupted interrupted poisoned clock stop last page
extinction countable few zero gone
fragmentation no chute no ladder no path no way through over under
bridge collapsed railway fallen circuit broken echo dulled
tape erased
invisible map red-sky morning red mourning red warning
self assembly
the art of
steering listening
reception feedback
fluidity response
count back count back
systems cognition circuits learning emergence flux flow
code embedded deep in cell in memory in twisted strands an alphabet a code

back

city of sleep city of masks city of subway & turnstile
too close stand back headlights
tracks nyx boat coin chaos birds
stain permeate imprint drench spill
illuminate transcribe prime stretch nail

theater of the very small theater of passions theater of stairwells
theater of windows of doors of bus stop shelter of boat of wind of oar & effort
railway roadway highway meadow
this place this platform this vacant
iowa small tool shed top hill grave field

across

architecture of flows
chain web sparse or dense
multi routed multi threaded
brilliance resilience resplendent
abundance complexity
iron glass & noise
weft & warp

4 string landscape
infinite between
bendable tonality
fretless beast
gravitational pulls
orbit & deviation
delay / echo tape chance
degrees of freedom
boundedness taut net
no map palette arcs
across found sound canvas
spill pour grid

night crow no time graffiti angel
icarus ghost bird
radio pluto
washington avenue
bridge subway warehouse
symphony of metal
concrete & glass
blades grass
blades accordion
sheet music
sheet metal

gearstranslation

data modeling ecosystem transcription
contour core motion
stripped down
essential form
arc distilled
abstraction
line drawn
color form shape
context seed dynamics
phase plane essence
naked mirror silhouette
skeletal moving gears

translation filter
transformation
map bait lure tackle
spinning wheel
rapunzel wizard magic fish
chutes & ladders
connection conjunction sentence
necklace
purl one
knit one
knot one
sticky spider silk
relations table entry
time stamp seal or wax

transact system
query language
row by row relation
containment category rope bind
join

florescence

parameter variable matrix
grid structure thing
observation frame tool
equations models contours
distillation estimation
syntax set domain & range
functional translation

not constrained in columns
not implicit static vertex stone
explicit fluid statement sets
reified relations
triples
articulated
joins

the lattice the ladder the sky

queer isocline bent contour curve
topographic skew
blue green florescence rush
wide-hipped hue
the morning light chlorophyll
rubbed blades rain or dew
hush suspended ready electric
whispered static light
the lattice the ladder the sky

slender stem blade .&. meadow
harmonic structures ladders heavens
tonality ecology dynamics systems weather
synthesis loom radio sky

fold

field notes double reed hollow log
breaking hard ground
thatch root millennia ruptured disrupted
buffalo fire & the fire tenders
lace boots & => functions of lists reduce / fold filter map
irretrievable calculation distillation contours
physics of oars physics of rope & gears
physics of taut independence bound inter dependence
cycling time flow graph calculus of change & motion
tangents & intersections flux weather elements wind
there exists an x a y a maybe just nothing
suppose this
not silence exactly

particles of speech particles of sound particles of exchange
molecular transfer diagrams schema ontologies syntax relations
punctuations blank space lines unfolding hollow tunnel echo static dial
encode translate transform (re)cover uncover reverse
verb => noun => past tense
neural net language drip radio wave resilience
co2 => biomass => soil
the deep & tangled dark sea horizon wind sail blades of grass
sky to earth to text texture textile

stalk

tuning discontinuity fragmentation
multiplicity assemblage blur
distance metrics near / far this-ness
frequency instruments theory
narrow limited constrained
drawer paper file grass specimen stalk leaf root
instrument network transmission system
sensitive antenna chlorophyll swarm
body axes mapped static system structure
food chain length & flow

grass

dusty
dry
road
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
parched
to deep well
poured
vessel
curved heaven
layers walked
blocks & blocks miles & miles
grid traversals railroad shortcuts faster more
pause nap fuel sandwich coffee shelter onward
restless random walk

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
suitcase sandwich coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
folded map
worn matchbook
lucky strike

illumination recitation number sequence radio station
urgent message scrawled location

this was the day the time the place
last chance prairie recitation reclamation
stop the gears bend the tide
stitch mend reweave restore rewind

silence

fire ash carbon gone
nothing none empty not
theory of null numbers
vacant absent zero space

theory of sparse matrix
an absence
exponential decline
crash .

holes in the matrix
gap(s) ...
column row
moth hole black hole
space silence fact

theory of null values
silence of null values
neon vacant blinking light
empty storm-drain alley

rider

faint signal pale wave slow current faraway transmission
faded recording
long ago the far away a t-cell twist like this it goes
that jukebox love song jukebox archive jukebox dance song
rusty turnstile chance song billiard dice song co2 roulette
trophic past text particles of speech
trophic cascade light water steam then ghost

corner bar stool
the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
napkin blueprints cipher curves & codes
beer-stained formula calculations configurations
phase plane transformations

zero

homeostasis functions script energy production
flows & motion
minerals carbon
produced consumed released
the mill
the body ::: a federation
web loom constellation
temporary boundary of skin
stoichiometric polyphony
chorus set of strings

chemistry & light

reading
physical traversal
visceral traversal
repeat repeat loop
link pause dwell leap
hypertext state machine
railway navigation
photosynthetic bit flow
binary twist
one zero distance field
microscope telescope
molecular astronomy
infinite between

enigma

how is this night different from all other nights?
short trophic chains
webs constrained
nutrient enrichment enigma
nutrient paradox nutrient cage bind limit
stable state dream fragile balance
weather heat rain flood fire
orbit cycle chaos
hydrogen oxygen ::: so hard to fuse
weld spark twist
ecosystem metrics gears & struts
evolution adaptation
form(s) of change

window

trace erosion fragment shadow window time
season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
blueprint blue light paper pressing
chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
weight rhizome tent matrix building frame

dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
for each map filter fold list railway table
(off || on 0 || 1)
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

to

the passenger left & wandered to the river edge
tall grass abandoned plot slope tangled bank
electric passenger
feathers against the ripe pale blades & reedy fishers
spark filament poetry orchestration animation
memory storage bank

after 8 days on the 8th day at 3:48
the passenger left the building & wandered
towards river edge past tall grasses abandoned plots
down sloping entangled bank worn burdened electric passenger
lay down feathers against the ripening pale blades & watched
the reedy fishers bent stalks headed trousers folded
pail in hand to shore chlorophyll surging through limbs
pulsing turning in the yellow light

science

microscope observatory tiny vial
tiny xylophone tiny ribcage

tube => transistor cathode ray tube
raster digital pixel knowing
language drawing vector contour lost

cloud of pixels probabilities clump densities likelihood noise
boltzmann entropy analogue encoded signal computation
digit swarm translation

literature science novel science poetry science
narrative past text pollination
picture science syntax metaphor diagram
divine static steady state
mythic science
evolving ever changeful circle science
taut self-organizing orbit science
geometric atmospheric light nitrogen
nutrient profile adaptation
mineral light weather water
vial drop science
torn curtain broken window chaos science

rider

faded animations faded colors green yellow brown => gray
plant specimens stamped time-stamped the walker rider passenger
collector observer marks down weather rain heat cold dry piano rolls
score movement slows to snapshots
pinning clothes recording transects counts
footnotes footnotes footnotes
sets & grass to find the trophic structure
problem of scale reference static object product state
broken rhythm boxed number tables
frozen vertex chalk body outline fixed

time step nutrient cycle handbook of codes
algorithm recipe diagram flow
now back but then not now but perhaps
maybe just || nothing
rectify & join

knots

layers of heaven
cardinalities
threshold probabilities
levels of possible quantum
paths
knots
countable

a lattice lash tied taut

between zero & one
infinity
countable rational salt & pepper mesh
or an uncountable irrational sea
unbroken surface
lifetime & extinction

angels birds grassland constellation

seemingly infinite => countable
2 (not many)
1 (one => zero)
abstraction reduction
trace contour
subtraction
collapse
absence
zero
ghosts

roots

on the afternoon of the 8th day
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
only a bird not a god
only an old sewing machine

treadle & thread
stitch back repair repair
lace prairie weave roots
pump light well bind
animate turn breathe
circulate & mend

emergence

lexicon of relations
linguistics language
shifting drawer
predicate proclaim declare affirm assert
text stream interface
pipeline filter map fold
density of links
connectance metrics
flows & form
web network branch tree graph
extensible modular composable construction
shape shifting flow emergence change

infinite series
calculus of motion calculus of change
physics of angles angels
sound waves light
inflection reflection
convergence to fixed point orbit loop or cycle
convergence to zero
absence silent slope abyss
shape shifting flow emergence change

associative trail path spline index jump
graph traversal heat diffusion fluid flow
night mail railway saturn sky
shape shifting flow emergence change

semantic nets systems frames rules
automated reasoning engines
ontologies schemas
inference machines
classifiers theorem provers
maps

cube

electric magnet migrate translate
hero zero suitcase clock map train nomad
boat bird data airbase data cube data curved space
prism lattice fabric timestamp schema graph
reify untie unfold unroll
electric orbit ghost force ether spark
specimen drawer weather static wind-blown number station
solar noise cloud formation storm titration wireless smoke-filled sky

broke ground broke thatch broke net broke flow
telegraph rhizome circuit network junction
flag siren point nutrient carbon tangle
broke ratio physics orbit fixed-point evolution
clue drawer box film parchment vinyl
blood feather stalk beak grass root
paper stamp store mark transect photo record image cell
before axe pick shovel hoe oxen plow
before hard ground was broken
still woven yellow green ticker
tape pulsed code transmission
echo vacuum tube transistor
circuit still electrified
& living

ignite !

thatch

electric magnet migrate translate
hero zero suitcase clock map train nomad
boat bird data airbase data cube data curved space
prism lattice fabric timestamp schema graph
reify untie unfold unroll
electric orbit ghost force ether spark
specimen drawer weather static wind-blown number station
solar noise cloud formation storm titration wireless smoke-filled sky

broke ground broke thatch broke net broke flow
telegraph rhizome circuit network junction
flag siren point nutrient carbon tangle
broke ratio physics orbit fixed-point evolution
clue drawer box film parchment vinyl
blood feather stalk beak grass root
paper stamp store mark transect photo record image cell
before axe pick shovel hoe oxen plow
before hard ground was broken
still woven yellow green ticker
tape pulsed code transmission
echo vacuum tube transistor
circuit still electrified
& living

ignite !

the

us / them / ze / I
the body plural the collection the ecology of I
constellation tonal set
commutative diagram
vector pillars basis set
fire bison
microfiche
memex landscape archive

moth flame fuel
what angel whose wings which bird
tightrope perilous torch gas flight
filament neon halogen light
solar spectra halo
semisynthetic polychromatic light
harvest net gap spark
every angel every bird every fire
every light

t-cell

faint signal pale wave slow current faraway transmission
faded recording
long ago the far away a t-cell twist like this it goes
that jukebox love song jukebox archive jukebox dance song
rusty turnstile chance song billiard dice song co2 roulette
trophic past text particles of speech
trophic cascade light water steam then ghost

corner bar stool
the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
napkin blueprints cipher curves & codes
beer-stained formula calculations configurations
phase plane transformations

exactlyparticles

field notes double reed hollow log
breaking hard ground
thatch root millennia ruptured disrupted
buffalo fire & the fire tenders
lace boots & => functions of lists reduce / fold filter map
irretrievable calculation distillation contours
physics of oars physics of rope & gears
physics of taut independence bound inter dependence
cycling time flow graph calculus of change & motion
tangents & intersections flux weather elements wind
there exists an x a y a maybe just nothing
suppose this
not silence exactly

particles of speech particles of sound particles of exchange
molecular transfer diagrams schema ontologies syntax relations
punctuations blank space lines unfolding hollow tunnel echo static dial
encode translate transform (re)cover uncover reverse
verb => noun => past tense
neural net language drip radio wave resilience
co2 => biomass => soil
the deep & tangled dark sea horizon wind sail blades of grass
sky to earth to text texture textile

absence

no rain again last night
humidity swallowed by air
suspension
no release
dry river dry soil
bucket after bucket carried
cold well .map(water => pasture)
long cold spring &. then
heat came with bone not water ||

only
this vessel this gallery these ribs
a cage
for birds
an absence only lonely

attention swings ::: an acrobat
an aerial artist
trapeze circus
3-ring digits
clickable texts
shining neon
pawn shop blinking
payday loans
apoplectic news
heavy rain

sundial

trace erosion fragment shadow window time
season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
blueprint blue light paper pressing
chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
weight rhizome tent matrix building frame

dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
for each map filter fold list railway table
(off || on 0 || 1)
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

worn

this was the morning this was the place

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
worn suitcase sandwich
tepid brown liquid thermos
creased map
compass light
lucky strike
hat axle pocket knife
coins for the boatman
steam engine captain
singer all aboard
ticket agent paper
tin cup beggar thief

spider

downward glance creased map marked path
radio research building institute
factory platform station
slant rusty hinge door sunlight
spider housings metal glint antenna
vines static deep dark corner silence
vinyl recordings specimen drawers
faded paper census sketchpad marks
lost language fallen angels
frozen role enactments
jukebox score
piano rolls
silent tattered scripts

stored inside this moss bound station
critical to the mission
notes numbers data
handbook manual translation codes
recorded ghost grass chorus
dried pressed limbs reed blade stem seed
circuit diagram equations

velocities

skull telescope
recorded playback frame
incomplete phonetics
extinct past taxon gap
cipher thrivance teeming whole
an awkward re assemblance
blank missing vertex node
absent click track metrics scale & score

archive junk drawer weather babel chaos din
vinyl recordings musical notations
frequencies harmonics rhythm velocities
charges changes coupled difference equations
probabilistic time series snapshots samples pressings indices
the symbols were known but the phonetics were lost
the clocks were out of phase
pulse & counting skew

wasteland

fires wind walls cross the plains
siberian methane craters epoch ice mass glaciers melted
carbon water torrents spew
glaciers plastic castles plastic wasteland acid death zone
tsunami mass breadth depth force physics
pandemic fascist prisons state-blue murder
homeless ghosts plywood window
cafe stalled railways vacant buslines
emergency crisis full wards breathless death

hunger walks through newsprint clickbait
advertisement-laced bad news
devastating news unprecedented news every-day cataclysmic criminal leader news
felon leaders moloch leaders consuming leaders devouring leaders marrow sucking leaders
maskless faithless villains bearing flags & spewing venom

& citizen knapsack bandaged wanderers
greasy coughing last-legs diner masked ghosts