Is it a coincidence that the people who form ideas are rarely the same people who own them?

Would you believe me if I told you there is an underground prison for crimes committed against intellectual property? It’s called The Terms—a debtor’s prison for copyright infringement and intellectual property theft.

There is insider information, personal information, information thieves. And information wars. Data is mined, exploited, warehoused. There are centers of data. The former Verizon Building at 375 Pearl Street is one.

Is it using too strong of a word to say information becomes a prisoner to these institutions? If prisoner is too strong of a word, then what about exile?

The narrative is interrupted by an advertisement. “Your video will continue is 30 … 29 … 24 … 15 seconds.”

Advertising first fractured our attention so that it could be pieced back together.

In this architectural rendering four out of five women look directly into the camera. But none of the men do. There is no challenge, only acquisition.

Who are the clients? Men. What do they want? Simulation. They want to hold the building in their hands. The architectural model says, This is yours. Do what you will with me.

Limestone is a sedimentary rock with grains of coral and plankton. The Great Pyramid was built with limestone. Chauvet Cave is limestone. 375 Pearl Street is limestone. So are The Tombs. —all mausoleums.

The root of plankton comes from Greek, meaning wandering. Limestone is a sedimentary rock.

Former Verizon Building, future world’s tallest datacenter, 375 Pearl Street: Is it underground or underwater?

Pearls are hard structures, created by the soft tissue of the bivalve mollusk. Those are cataracts that were his eyes.

Parts of the city cannot be filmed. The neighborhood known as Civic Center is in lockdown.

Between 2000 and 2010 Civic Center was the only neighborhood in Manhattan south of 165 Street to lose 1,000 or more residents.

The city recedes from the public. Barricaded, it peers out through mechanical eyes. The cancer of paranoia spreads unabated. Encouraged.

Is one thousand or more a large number? Is it a coincidence that the Alfred F. Smith Houses look like Central Booking, which resembles the Metropolitan Correction Center? Yes. Is it a coincidence that they are ziggurats and cruciforms? No.

Madoff is just up the block and currency was invented to pay off mercenaries.

What city do you live in? I live in Goya’s city. The city of Saturn. They say it’s better here than most places.