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The record collection does not grow.
It *accumulates symptoms.*
FLUSS ALLERGENS remains on the shelf, breathing softly through its resin nostril, when a second tectonic shift occurs:
# **SUB SYSTEM MEETING POINTS**
### “Eridacus – Third”
7" star lathe + sculptural cover + mix CD
**Edition of 1**
The empty Java Juice is still humming in **20003494994949 BC**.
The fluorescent lights have fossilized into stalactites of old code.
The floor is carpeted with ancient MSU tractor-feed computer paper. Green-and-white striped, perforated, edges curled like overexposed epidermis. Each step is a soft papercut. The confetti smells faintly of overheated processors and cafeteria steam.
Header ghosts remain:
**MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS – INCOMPLETE**
The word *INCOMPLETE* flakes first.
The paper does not lie flat. It puckers in response to humidity. It responds to breath. It responds to the 7" star lathe as if the lathe were pollen.
When **Eridacus – Third** spins, the paper does not move by wind. It moves by recognition.
Tiny jumps.
Static fleas.
Data becoming dermatitis.
---
## GRAPH: PAPER DECAY / DATA LOSS / SKIN RESPONSE
```
PAPYRUS / DATEN / PEAU
^
| /\ /\ /\ /\
| / \____/ \______/ \____/ \
|__/________________________________> TEMPO / ZEIT / TIME / ɘmiT
```
Legend missing.
Axes reversed halfway through.
At the bottom, in backward pencil:
*“ygreneS hctI = noitasuaC?”*
Dust mites nest in perforations once meant for alignment pins.
Pollen clings to cafeteria schedules from 1983.
The sculpture cover accepts debris like a second epidermis, becoming abrasive, archival, allergic.
A low hum from Java Juice:
```
> RUN DIAGNOSTIC
> RESULT: PRURITUS LOOP
> ATTEMPT SOURCE ELIMINATION
> FAILED
```
---
Another graph, this one printed sideways inside the mix CD sleeve:
### FLEA EVENTS vs. AUDITORY SCRATCH
```
^ GATOS / FLOH / FLEA
| || ||| |||| || |||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|________________________________> ÉCOUTE / HÖREN / HEAR / ɹɐǝH
```
The two lines overlap until indistinguishable.
Stamped in red:
**SOURCE ELIMINATION FAILED**
**ELIMINACIÓN FALLIDA**
**ΔΕΡΜΑ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑ**
**metsys nikS**
The paper crackles in sympathetic rhythm.
Each perforation is a pore.
Each pore is a port.
Each port transmits itch.
---
A final MSU sheet taped to the espresso machine (long fossilized):
*Skin is a system.*
*Paper is a system.*
*Sound is a system.*
*Meeting point unresolved.*
The Java Juice continues humming in prehistory.
---
# **SUB SYSTEM MEETING POINTS**
## “Eridanus – Second”
star lathe cut + sculpture + mix CD
**Numbered unique edition of one copy**
The sculpture is already listening before you enter.
It listens in five languages and misfiles all of them.
The river Eridanus does not flow forward.
It flows *through perforation.*
---
## GRAPH: ALLERGEN / FLUSS / TON / AGUA / EAU
```
^ ɹǝɥʇO
| ████ ██████ ███
| ████████ ██████████ ██████
|██████████████████████████████
|
|________________________________> ZEIT / TIEMPO / TEMPS / emiT
DAMPF VAPOR VAPEUR ɹodɐΛ
```
Hinweis (upside down):
*Vermeidung ist Musik.*
*cisum si noitadivA.*
---
The star lathe clicks like dry skin flexing. Then softens. Then flakes.
The mix CD speaks in overlapping tongues:
**ENGLISH (incorrect):**
No breed is innocent. Some shed tone. Some shed dust. All shed memory.
**ESPAÑOL (rascado):**
El río no cura. Solo redistribuye la picazón.
**FRANÇAIS (mal aligné):**
La vapeur monte, la peau descend, la musique hésite.
**DEUTSCH (diagrammatisch krank):**
```
HAUT / TON / WASSER
^
| █ ███ █
| ███ █████ ███
| █████ ███████ █████
|
|__________________________> NICHTLINEAR
```
**LATIN (invented, dissolving):**
*Eridanus administrat.*
*Pruritus transit.*
*tisnarT sutirurP.*
---
Humidity increases.
Paper curls inward, forming proto-sculptures.
The sculpture hums approval when imaginary saline rinses the air.
A new graph appears burned faintly into the resin:
## HYDRATION vs. MEMORY vs. ITCH
```
^ ɥɔʇI
| /
| /\
| / \_____
|_____/______________> aqua / agua / wasser / ɹǝʇɐʍ
```
At two liters per day, the line steadies.
At ten days, it spikes.
In microscopic type:
*If symptoms persist beyond ten rotations, consult a healthcare provider.*
*rediovorp erachtlaeh a tlusnoc*
The advice exists inside the artwork, not outside it.
---
The Java Juice remains in 20003494994949 BC.
The MSU paper decomposes into numeric pollen.
The star lathe spins sideways.
The graphs refuse interpretation.
Inside, systems meet and misalign:
Skin ↔ Paper ↔ Sound ↔ Data ↔ River ↔ Nostril ↔ ɹʇsoN
Outside time continues to itch.
Inside Eridanus flows through perforation holes once meant for tractors of information.
Numbered. Unique.
Edition of one copy.