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## **EDUCE — “Son Of The Neers”**
**3c40 + insert + box**
*A Science Building Burns While Continuing to Teach*
---
### **THE BUILDING (EST. UNKNOWN / DEMOLISHED ON PAPER)**
The science building is on fire
but the fire has been peer-reviewed.
Flames climb the stairwell in tidy columns,
orange like outdated textbooks,
black smoke annotating the ceiling
with footnotes that cannot be erased.
No alarm sounds.
Only cassette decks clicking over.
---
### **LOBBY: OVERVIEW DEPARTMENT**
A placard melts slowly:
> *Overview*
> Dogs like to keep themselves clean.
The letters drip.
Dandruff flakes down like ash.
A lecturer continues, voice calm, skin irritated:
> Skin cells are continuously dying, shedding off, and being replaced.
Outside, the walls shed bricks.
Inside, the audience nods.
---
### **INSERT #1 (FALLS FROM A BURNING COAT POCKET)**
**CAUSES OF DRYNESS**
* Lack of grooming
* Arthritis
* Pain or stiffness
* Being overweight
Someone writes in pencil, as the page curls:
> *Also: living inside a burning structure.*
---
### **SECOND FLOOR: PARASITOLOGY WING**
The **Flea Diagram Room** is fully involved.
Projected on the wall as it chars:
> Fleas are a common problem in dogs.
The fleas flee the slide and become ideas.
They bite the lower back of language.
Mange scuttles through the ducts,
scabies mites filing grievances,
red thickened corridors forming where paint once was.
A graduate student shouts:
> Demodex normally lives here without causing problems!
The ceiling answers by collapsing politely.
---
```
GRAPH A: PARASITE LOAD vs STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
INTEGRITY ^
|\
| \
| \
| \
| \
+-----------------> TIME
(ignition point)
```
---
### **THIRD FLOOR: ALLERGIES & BELIEF SYSTEMS**
The Flat Earth Meeting Room burns evenly.
Dave Illiams’ notebook combusts mid-sentence:
> Allergic skin disease causes itchy skin and rashes.
L.M.’s handwritten note survives longer than expected:
> *This part is not a metaphor.*
Food allergies flare in the kitchenette.
Medication reactions explode in the cabinet.
A sign, half legible:
> **CONTACT YOUR VET ASAP — THIS IS AN EMERGENCY**
The word *emergency* ignites last.
---
### **INSERT #2 (AD, STILL TRYING TO SELL ITSELF)**
**FLATPAW™ DOG BOOTIES**
Now flame-resistant!
Still ineffective.
---
### **BASEMENT: AUDIO ARCHIVE / CASSETTE STACK**
Here lie the reels:
* **PSULE “1” c110** — warped into a question mark
* **RAIN DART “ALL INO” c60** — sounds like sprinklers failing
* **HERETICS s/t c90** — spelling burns first
* **BRAIN GAIN s/t c60** — myths drip from the ceiling
* **ARMER “Perature Sider 1”** — stars falling off their ratings
* **IND ARNE “The Sna At OO”** — time running backward into flame
And now:
### **EDUCE — “Son Of The Neers”**
Three c40s melting together into one long lesson.
---
### **SIDE A: THE POOL CLEANER RETURNS**
The pool cleaner stands ankle-deep in firewater.
He scrubs the tile anyway.
Symptoms scroll across a cracked monitor:
* Red, inflamed skin
* Itchy skin
* Hair loss
* Smelly, weepy lesions
He writes on a soot-covered wall:
> *Dermatitis should always be checked.*
The wall nods, then falls.
---
### **SIDE B: THE SHAKESPEARE WING COLLAPSES**
Iambs crawl backward out of the flames.
> Scratch not thy crown, O dog of state,
> For mites wear robes thou canst not see.
Medusae statues soften,
serpents turning into extension cords,
language unfinished, melting mid-vowel.
---
```
GRAPH B: KNOWLEDGE vs HEAT
KNOWLEDGE ^
| *
| *
| *
| *
| *
+-----------------> HEAT
(optimal failure)
```
---
### **SIDE C: THE REVIEW SECTION**
A Google review floats up, charred:
★★★★★ → ☆☆☆☆☆
Stars fall through floors.
The planet sheds opinions like skin.
Someone writes:
> *Most causes aren’t serious and improve with treatment.*
The sentence burns into:
> *Improve.*
---
### **FINAL INSERT (FOUND IN THE BOX, UNBURNED)**
A single page, unmarked except for dog hair.
> *You can study while things burn.*
> *You can believe while itching.*
> *But when the building is on fire,*
> *go outside.*
---
### **THE BOX (AFTER)**
Only the box remains.
Blackened.
Warm.
Still labeled **EDUCE**.
Inside:
Ash, tape fragments, handwritten notes, fake ads, real warnings.
The science building is gone.
The lesson persists, singed but audible:
**Symptoms are signals.
Belief does not treat infection.
Fire is not a metaphor when it spreads.**
Edition of 1.