A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE
You are in a house. In the room is a beautiful wife. Through the window, you see a large automobile.
> how did i get here
You'll have to ask yourself.
Other locations in the game could include a shotgun shack, another part of the world, and the bottom of the ocean.
I know someone at Infocom liked that song: it's quoted in the wonderful mid-80s text game Trinity.
10:47 p.m. edit: I'd first posted this to Facebook; my friend Kirk, who I met at college, replied "It could be based on the Talking Heads' entire body of work." He wrote
> look
There was a factory here. Now there are mountains and rivers.
> look
You see a rattlesnake slithering through the field.
> catch rattlesnake
Now you have something for dinner.
> look
Someone is approaching you.
> start a conversation
You can't even finish it. You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything.
> run run run run run run run away
You run, but you're not fast enough. The psycho killer kills you.
> look
You are in Heaven.
> look
There is nothing else to see here. Nothing ever happens here.
