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— D.U. Blogspot, 2009

He stared at me for ten seconds. Then he said: "It's not a chord. It's a question you stop asking."

Leo leaned back. "The grid closing in." He knew that feeling. The feeling of algorithms predicting his every click. The feeling of endless scrolling.

I asked him: "What's the first chord of 'Marquee Moon'?"

He plugged in his headphones. The .mp3 was simply titled: the_gap.wav .

The track lasted exactly one minute and fifty-seven seconds. When it ended, Leo felt strange. He looked at his phone. The battery was dead. He looked at his clock. It was frozen at 3:14 AM.

At first, nothing. Then a single guitar note. Not a chord. A note that hung in the air like smoke in a still room. It didn't fade. It waited .