Synergids: Pay-back Polygraph

The reasons that I did what I did in April of 1985 were personal, banal, and amounted really to kind of greed and folly. And the reason that I didn't stop will forever be inexplicable to me, as well as, I suppose, to everyone else. ...

- Aldrich Ames

Tears [are] invisible to the bureaucrat.

- Emmanuel Levinas

"This is a rainbow sheen with a dark center."

As rescue crews continued searching for survivors, a federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of one of the 11 missing workers.

BP spokesman Tom Mueller declined to comment on the suit, and a spokesman for Transocean did not immediately return a call requesting comment.

"We do continue with search and rescue," Landry said. "As time passes, however, the probability of success in locating the 11 missing persons decreases."

In case of protection equipment breach: breathe. Still. Press the white carnation to your face. Induce volatile anesthetic. Ovum bloom. Open nuclei.

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            Firewall Chest: The pain will be akin to the outermost layer of skin consumed by a low-grade burn. You will need to slither out of this flaming neoprene drysuit. Do not panic and struggle to locate the adjustable exhaust valves withered against your skin: rubber can be remarkably clingy and will not yield to tugging. The suit tends to shrink when heated. Buoyant cool-out.

            Smooth Skin Knee: You may not be sure where it started and where it ended. You think back to locate smaller, and more fleeting moments where decisions, other than the ones you made, may have rerouted what came afterwards. Count to five and start again. Nausea is a possibility- it is permissible to continue counting while allowing the sharp intake of air to fool your insides. Open up the wings. Avoid flutter. The mammalian lungs flank the heart.

            Glideskin: Deep water blackout. The cut of the invisible sharp-edged tool moving across your insulation, into your body, up your diaphragm. Enter water. Seal- broken, tilt back.

            Double Fluid Seam: Seal the air tube. Cracked open you finally recall fragments. Bodies without suits. Hands and mouths. Linger airway. Collapsed alveoli; hardened lungs.