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Non-binary is, in the first instance, defined by Oxford Languages as not relating to, composed of, or involving just two things. 1. 0. <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page2'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page4'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'page8'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

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Binary / Zadie Kennedy Mccracken

Thank you to Faye Tang, my incredible editor, and to cerebus (https://ccrberus.itch.io/) for our gorgeous story template. Thank to Douglas W. Jones, for the ternary computer, and to Pete & Leslie, for the apartment. Thank you, Onawa Gilkes, for your edits, support, patience, wisdom and laughter. There is no me without you. [[back|home]]

a passage for testing the """$return""" function! it returns you to the last visited passage that isn't tagged with 'noreturn', whereas the general back button in the menu simply navigates through all visited passages. helps you avoid getting stuck in a loop! <<link "return to game" $return>><</link>>

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Late at night, dancing, I lean against the wall to steady myself and accidentally slip through its skin. Inside the wall, there is no time. The music thumps and rattles. I am a mouse that lives in the wall of O’s apartment, stealing dirty human crumbs from the kitchen floor; I peer through the plaster and see a woman. She is much younger than me, with long, curly blonde hair and blue eyeshadow, holding a glass of prosecco, laughing. <<linkreplace "I slip back.">> We go downstairs and smoke. I grip the staircase’s guardrail and show a new Swiss friend photos of the woman. She is surprised I was ever [[01100010 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100101 00001010|blonde]]. <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page3'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page3'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'page3'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>> <</linkreplace>>

In coding, there are 0s and 1s. This is a simple world, impossible to imagine. Where are my 2, 3 and 4s at? My 87s and 96s? My 265s and 718s? <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page3.1'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

blonde [[back|page2]]

One great thing about being gay is that you can be everything at once or nothing, if you like. Neither 0 nor 1. In bed, O and I’s bodies coalesce into everything at once and void. We press our chests together and breathe in time. We have sex in binary code. We have 01110011 01100101 01111000. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page4.1'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

A list of definitions from different years in the Oxford English Language Dictionary: 1941 The effect [on gas separation] of the non-binary character of air. 1962 Nonbinary, solar-type stars with low angular momenta. 1981 It is clearly necessary that x1, x2 should be in the same connected component of M, and this component must be non-binary. [[2017|horse meme]] The output of a linear filter is a non-binary sequence even if the input is binary. <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page6'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page8'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'page4'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

<span id="changing-text">We are eating and wearing a very cute scarf we stole from an ex-lover.</span>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <<repeat 1.5s>>\ <<if _count is 0>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We are abnormally jealous.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 1>>\ <<elseif _count is 1>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We wish we were better, all the time.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 2>>\ <<else>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We have long fingers.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <</if>>\ <</repeat>>\ <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page6.1'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

There is a kind of non-binary computer. It is not infinite. It runs on base 3, not base 2. From [[Douglas W. Jones’|page7.7]] The Ternary Manifesto: <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page7.1'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page8'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'page3'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

In ternary computing, you can be 0, 1, 2. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page8.1'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

I lie in the space between 0 and 1 and count the freckles on O's forehead.  <<link '<div class="choice-item">start again?</div>' 'home'>><</link>>

<img src="img/douglasjones.jpg" width="50%" height="50%"> [[back|page7]]

Zadie Kennedy Mccracken (24) is a writer and performing arts producer living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Their writing has appeared in //Gems Zine//, //Ramona Magazine// and //Voiceworks//, and onstage for //La Mama Theatre//, //Melbourne Fringe//, and //Theatre Works//. They love horse memes. [[back|home]]

no [[back|page4.4]]

<img src="img/horsememe.jpg" width="50%" height="50%"> [[back|page5]]

black and white [[back|page6.3]]

$1400 [[back|page3.2]]

Or 0, ½,1, or -1, 0, 1, or F?T. Or TFT. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page8.2'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

<span id="changing-text">101010 10010011 0001101001 01011001010</span>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <<repeat 100ms>>\ <<if _count is 0>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>01100010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100100<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 1>>\ <<elseif _count is 1>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>11001110 11010101 110001011 11000101 000001101 11010101 10001010<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 2>>\ <<else>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>10001010 01110111 00010100 11111110 011001010 101101010 101011011 0000101 1001011001 10001010 01110111 00010100 11111110 011001010 101101010 101011011 0000101 100101100 10001010 01110111 00010100 11111110 011001010 101101010 101011011 0000101 100101100 10001010 01110111 00010100 11111110 011001010 101101010 101011011 0000101 100101100 10001010 01110111 00010100 11111110 011001010 101101010 101011011 0000101 100101100 10001010 01110111 00010100 11111110 011001010 101101010 101011011 0000101 100101100<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <</if>>\ <</repeat>>\ . <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'home'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'the future'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'the past'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">end</div>' 'end'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

You are more than two, less than four. You are free from something, bordered by something else. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page8.3'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

Last night, we dreamt that there was 01101110 01101111 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101100 01101100. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page8.4'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

<span id="changing-text">We have very small hands.</span>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <<repeat 1s>>\ <<if _count is 0>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We grew up in rural Victoria.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 1>>\ <<elseif _count is 1>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We like watching the news.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 2>>\ <<else>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We are an extrovert.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <</if>>\ <</repeat>>\ <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page6.2'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

<span id="changing-text">We hate the way the world is going.</span>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <<repeat 0.8s>>\ <<if _count is 0>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We sleep intertwined one torso to one back one hand to one hand.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 1>>\ <<elseif _count is 1>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>Our stomach grumbles.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 2>>\ <<else>>\ <<replace "#changing-text">>We love the sun.<</replace>>\ <<set _count to 0>>\ <</if>>\ <</repeat>>\ <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page6.3'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

Last night, we dreamed in [[00110001 00100110 0011000|black and white]]. <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page7'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page8'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'page5'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

This is my name, in binary code: <<type 60ms>>01011010 0110001 01100100 01101001 01100101<</type>> <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page3.2'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

This is the amount of money I make a fortnight, in binary code: <<type 60ms>> [[00110001 00110100 00110000 00110000|1400]]<</type>> <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page3.3'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

This is my gender, in binary code: <<type 60ms>>errno = 0.<</type>> <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page3.4'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

This is how I love you, in binary code: <<type 60ms>>I hope death may never take me from the paradise of knowing you. <</type>> <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page4'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page6'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'page2'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

You have come out of the wall without instruction. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page8.5'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

You have <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page8.6'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

What is love if not a great dissolving of boundaries, a movement closer and closer towards each other over years of skin-to-skin, eyelids brushing eyelids in hope of merger? What is love if not the removal of discrete entities? O brushes my cheek with her tongue. I feel it on the inside of her mouth. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page4.2'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

We are making pasta out of sausage and onion in the small, narrow kitchen. We are writing a novel about our hometown. We are watching Girls non-stop. We have decided to go to Europe next year and stay for as long as we can. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">We would like to do an Honours year. </div>' 'page4.3'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

Non-binary is negation. I am non. I am not. I am knot. I am [[01101110 01101111|no]]. <<nobr>><div class="choices">  <<link '<div class="choice-item">next</div>' 'page5'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">skip</div>' 'page6'>><</link>> <<link '<div class="choice-item">back</div>' 'home'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

We are the love of our life. We have stayed. We are kissing. We lock eyes. We have long auburn hair. We have brown eyes. We live in a city. We do not want to go to space. We had a big job interview today. <<nobr>><div class="choices"> <<link '<div class="choice-item">We have never been happier than this. </div>' 'page4.4'>><</link>> </div><</nobr>>

<<type 30ms>>“Using base 3 instead of base 2 maximizes the incompatibility. This suggests that word-sizes should be measured in trits, not bits. The numbers 3, 9, 27 and 81 show up naturally in our new world, so we suggest the use of a 3-trit trybble, a 9-trit tryte, and a 27-trit word. This has strong consequences across the board, from digital circuits to character codes and programming language semantics.” <</type>> [[back|page7]]