the wii’s menu music—that piano drifting over an empty sea at dusk—was always an audiobook without words. it told you: you are here, but you are also somewhere else. a liminal lullaby for a console that wanted you to move but somehow made you feel still.
and then you turn down the tv volume, put on headphones, and let a narrator read you a novel while you play Super Mario Galaxy on mute. your hands are doing one thing—collecting stars, shaking the remote—but your mind is elsewhere. in a noir detective’s office. in a spaceship drifting past Saturn. in the final chapter of a life that isn’t yours. audiobook nintendo wii
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