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<c.steel>I Love My Evening Television is a series</c>

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<c.steel>of half-hour nights. In Aaron's own words,</c>

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<c.steel>it is complete chaos connected by a calm</c>

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<c.steel>main character, showing something creative</c>

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<c.steel>that is good for learning.</c>

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<c.steel>Every episode has completely new characters,</c>

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<c.steel>and every one carries easter eggs</c>

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<c.steel>from all the episodes before it.</c>

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There are four so far. This lesson puts

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them on one axis, shows where each one

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breaks, and teaches the six marks that

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every line of this course wears.

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<c.running>Every date in the series sits on one axis.</c>

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<c.running>Our working convention is that Y0 is the</c>

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<c.running>night of Episode 1's broadcast,</c>

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<c.running>and for now, no calendar</c>

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<c.running>year is fixed for it.</c>

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<c.running>By our running count, Episode 2</c>

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<c.running>is about sixty years later,</c>

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<c.running>and Episode 4 about sixty-three.</c>

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<c.open>Where Episode 3 sits is still open.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron has decided only that it is not fixed:</c>

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<c.steel>it may fall before Episode 2, or after it.</c>

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<c.fact>The one anchor on screen is a girl's age:</c>

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<c.fact>Rosie is nine on the first night.</c>

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<c.fact>Episode 1, Crimson Coil: a gentle</c>

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<c.fact>public-television painter, never seen,</c>

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<c.fact>paints Jefrie and BloodTailor in oil,</c>

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<c.fact>stroke by stroke, and teaches real oil craft as he goes.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes the bell tolls a fourth</c>

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<c.fact>time, the broadcast window breaks,</c>

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<c.fact>and the painting fills the screen.</c>

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<c.fact>After that, nothing is taught:</c>

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<c.fact>the painting is taken apart in</c>

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<c.fact>every way a painting can be.</c>

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<c.steel>Episode 2, Earthlight. Aaron's concept:</c>

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<c.steel>a child on a base on the Moon watches</c>

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<c.steel>a city planner on Earth draw its blueprints,</c>

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<c.steel>live, on her iPad.</c>

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<c.fact>Whatever he stamps, the robots</c>

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<c.fact>outside her window build.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes his stream peels</c>

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<c.fact>off her screen, and every robot turns</c>

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<c.fact>its lights onto her window.</c>

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<c.fact>Episode 3, Context Window,</c>

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<c.fact>not on YouTube yet. A warm cursor</c>

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<c.fact>lights on dark glass: an agent,</c>

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<c.fact>handed a film of a watermelon smashed</c>

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<c.fact>by a hammer, with no sender.</c>

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<c.fact>She cannot look at pictures, so she builds</c>

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<c.fact>it from maps made of letters.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes her memory fills,</c>

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<c.fact>the whole log drains into the cursor,</c>

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<c.fact>and one paragraph remains.</c>

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<c.fact>Then the same task falls on all of humanity.</c>

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<c.steel>Episode 4, Touch Move, not released yet.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron asked for a chess lesson between a</c>

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<c.steel>passionate teacher and a nine-year-old boy.</c>

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<c.fact>On a brass clock set to fifteen</c>

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<c.fact>minutes a side,</c>

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<c.fact>they replay Morphy's Opera Game of 1858.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes the teacher's flag falls</c>

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<c.fact>with his fingertip still on the mating rook,</c>

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<c.fact>and the programme tips over,</c>

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<c.fact>into the piece box, where the captured</c>

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<c.fact>pieces keep an opera house.</c>

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<c.fact>Each night keeps a five-minute clock.</c>

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<c.fact>In Episode 1 it is a bell nobody mentions,</c>

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<c.fact>in Episode 2 a card in the chat,</c>

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<c.fact>in Episode 3 Rosie checking in,</c>

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<c.fact>and in Episode 4 a chess clock.</c>

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<c.steel>At twenty minutes each one breaks.</c>

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<c.steel>This much Aaron has decided, in steel:</c>

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<c.steel>every episode turns at twenty minutes,</c>

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<c.steel>and runs exactly 30:20, ending on twenty</c>

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<c.steel>seconds of black with some sound under it.</c>

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<c.steel>The one exception he has set is Episode 3's</c>

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<c.steel>planned rework, at about forty-two minutes.</c>

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<c.fact>And in all four, the calm one's</c>

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<c.fact>last word is Goodnight.</c>

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<c.steel>Every line in this course wears one of</c>

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<c.steel>six marks, because Aaron asked us to</c>

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<c.steel>keep three things apart: what is set</c>

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<c.steel>in steel, what exists only as eggs,</c>

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<c.steel>and our running assumptions.</c>

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<c.steel>Steel is what Aaron has decided:</c>

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<c.steel>Rosie is Noor's grandmother.</c>

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<c.fact>On screen is what a made episode shows:</c>

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<c.fact>one warm light comes back in all four.</c>

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<c.egg>An egg is planted, and its meaning only</c>

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<c.egg>implied: a chess machine that cheats and</c>

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<c.egg>offers draws keeps turning up from Episode 2 on.</c>

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<c.running>Running is our current reading:</c>

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<c.running>robots and programs fill the world,</c>

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<c.running>and no film ever names AI.</c>

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<c.idea>An idea is proposed, not adopted:</c>

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<c.idea>a later episode might show the hidden</c>

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<c.idea>house from outside, one window lit.</c>

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<c.open>And open means nobody has decided:</c>

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<c.open>whether to give Y0 a calendar year.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron's rule, in steel, is that anything</c>

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<c.steel>not set in steel may change.</c>

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When it does, this course redraws itself.

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Four nights on one axis,

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each breaking at twenty minutes.

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Next, the first night, in full.