Adele wishes to extend a deep curtsey for all who journeyed with her in cyberspace, either wholly or in part. In many ways she was already part of her future, our present, much more so than she belonged in her present, our past. She appreciated this chance to reanimate, to reexamine, and to reenact, as painful as it was at almost every step. He’s Just Not That Into You was less a comedy than a tragedy, in her century; in that, at least, we have made considerable progress. But how to journey from gravity to light? Portals are often shimmeringly transparent, and virtually inaccessible. Last time, she paused indefinitely on the threshold. But this time, she has taken the first few tentative steps into new territory. True, it was as a virtual character, a fictional overlay, a cyber-entity; but we’re all out here together, in some very virtual sense—and you know that by that I mean, very real.
Now that this particular experiment is over I will be documenting her journey, which has been #slowtwitter and chronological, in a manner more simultaneous and lateral. In other words, out of time and into space. When that transfer is complete I will let you know. Feel free to follow me, if you are not already, at @otolythe; and I, as well as Adele, thank you most graciously for following me here.
— Peggy Nelson, the author