DEPT OF
DESCENT
-28 m
FORM 723-A · REV. 81 · SUBLITTORAL BUREAU
APPLICATION FOR CONTINUED EXISTENCE
BELOW THE DATUM
filed at the floor of the Caspian · no altitude remains · only fall
NOTICE: This form reads you as you write. Below the datum there is no altitude, only how far you have left to fall. Your CLEARANCE begins full and does not recover. Answer honestly; it can tell. It cannot help you. It only judges.
REMAINING CLEARANCE:
723
fathoms above the floor
status: not yet disappointed
SECTION I — IDENTITY (provisional)
1.
State your name for the record. The 81st crease is hungry.
SECTION II — MATERIAL BURDENS
2.
How many CDs do you still own? (compact discs. yes. those.)
SECTION III — ORIGIN & KINSHIP
3.
Are you, in the technical bureaucratic sense, a
dogie
— a calf with no mother in the herd?
Yes, unmothered
No, fully herded
What is a dogie
SECTION IV — DEPTH OF SINCERITY
4.
On a scale from the surface to the Caspian floor, how far are you willing to fall for what you claim to want?
SECTION V — STATEMENT OF INTENT
5.
In your own words, justify your continued buoyancy. Be specific. Padding is detected and penalized.
SUBMIT FOR JUDGMENT ▾
DETERMINATION
A