“We also show them how to use the die as a veto. Every time they do something we ask them to shake a die and if it comes up a six they can’t do it; have to ask the die to choose something else for them. Veto’s a great method but hard. Most of us go through our lives from one thing to the next mechanically, without thought. We study, write, eat, flirt, fornicate, fuck as the result of habitual patterns. ‘Pop’ comes a dice veto: it wakes us up. In theory, we’re working toward the purely random man, one without habit or pattern, eating from zero to six or seven times a day, sleeping haphazardly,
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