by the bye.

Let’s be zeros and ones.

Can I be one?

Yes. I’m zero, then.

Don’t be so… binary.

I once tried to be something else. The square root of some non-square.

And how was it?

Very disturbing. All was blurred, customary concepts warped, irrationals lurking around incommensurable corners.

Being a square root’s scary.

Absurd, I’m telling you.

I’m still one, right?

Sure. Long as I’m zero.