They are warnings.
A small victory. He turned it back on manually. The Chunghop’s volume button worked. Then the channel changer. He flipped through the digital wasteland—infomercials, old sitcoms, a preacher shouting about the end times. He was about to toss the remote aside when he noticed a section in the manual he had never seen before. Chunghop Rm-l688 Universal Remote Manual
Arthur set the Chunghop down on the carpet next to the manual. He didn’t put batteries back in. He didn’t wrap it in a bag. He just left it there, under the shoebox, where his father had kept it. They are warnings