“Here is the image, right up here,” Eric said. He pointed at a screen. The screen went black. Eric did not acknowledge the outage. He kept pointing at the screen. “Right here,” he said. “You see? Here.” The audience murmured uneasily. A woman in the front row raised a hand, coughed, lowered her hand. Eric, sensing that he was losing the crowd, spoke louder and faster. “Here is the image,” he said. “Right up here.” The woman in the front row was gathering her things to leave. The lights in the room went off. The crowd was not murmuring any more, if any crowd was left. The room was filled only with silence and Eric’s voice, rising to a scream. “The image,” he shrieked. “The image. Here, see.”
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