Norton Street Albums

Norton Act 1 scene 1 The Bornless One and Mike are sitting in the Magic Theater as Bornless is viewing his most recent lifetime projected on the giant plasma widescreen. Bornless feels like he's gotta get home to Norton Street. He doesn't want to be around non-player characters when they peak in the waking state.

Norton Act 1 scene 2 Tonight's caller is The Bornless One who says it's getting bad again. The response is to "hang on as best you can. It's too late now to stop the waking state from happening." The Bornless complains of trembling ....

Norton Act 1 scene 3 "Don't think body thoughts," Mike advises. "Please help me," Bornless pleads. Mike tells him that he keeps dying every breath he takes.... Bornless doesn't want to keep dying over and over again. Mike admits that nobody really enjoys it. But he can learn to like it.

Norton Act 1 scene 4 Mike asks, "Use, meaning, purpose are you sure those are what you really want, Bornless One?".... Bornless complains that he doesn't want to be The One... He wants to have a life, and he wants to do it for real.

Norton Act 1 scene 5 Mike says to Bornless, "You seem to be upset. Let's examine your circumstances." Bornless confides to Mike, "I hope I don't make myself die again. Every time I die, I end up here on Norton Street.... Why do I always end up alone in the bathroom?”

Norton Act 1 scene 6 Bornless ponders the idea that if this is real then everything else was a dream. "When I took a deep dive inside that book over there, it seemed I lived a whole life...."

Norton Act 1 scene 7 Bornless asks, "How long was I gone?... How long was I inside that book-shaped universe?" Mike replies, "How long did it seem to you?" The response is that a few seconds here in Norton Street seems like a whole lifetime elsewhere. Bornless becomes very agitated. As he and Mike pace together, Bornless realizes he doesn't know what he means by the word "real."

Norton Act 2 scene 1 Bornless opens with a soliloquy. "Well, is this Norton Street apartment really all there is? Or are there other spaces like this? And if there are other realities or dimensions or creations on this level, are they bigger, smaller, the same size as this one? Are there different chambers? Do they look the same? Do they look different? Where exactly are they if they exist at all? Is there anyone out there? I am waiting for a knock at the door any moment now ..."

Norton Act 2 scene 2 In the Akashic Library all the magazines carry the same publication date. Bornless opens to a random page and reads ... Tonight's program is brought to you by Wake Up Magazine. Every issue identical since the beginning of time....

Norton Act 2 scene 3 "You can dream up anything and at least for a while it becomes real. The question is which one of us wears the wig?" "What makes you think just one of us does it?"... "But why would we want to wear a wig up here on Norton Street?"....

Norton Act 2 scene 4 "I can't catch my breath," Bornless complains. Mike tells him that he's too much in the body and that he doesn't have an organic body...."When will it end? When will we ever get out of here? Where do we go from here? How do we get there? What am I suppose to do now?...."

Norton Act 2 scene 5 "All the books up here say, 'read me;' all the podcasts say, 'listen to me;' all the videos say, 'watch me;' all the food says, 'eat me;' all the liquid says, 'drink me.'" Mike replies, "Of course they do. They want you to occupy them, to get inside them; in short, they want you to possess them for 70 or 80 of their years to give them a sense of livingness they can't get as flatties.... Everything here in this place is a universe all of its own...."

Norton Act 2 scene 6 "I can't hold on any longer. I can't maintain. I'm going to lose it." "Since when did you have it?" Mike asks. Bornless continues, "I can't maintain. It's all falling apart. I think I'm going to pass out." Mike advises, "Sometimes it's best to just go with the flow." KGOD reminds you when the universe starts falling apart, do not attempt to repair it yourself. Remain calm; remain seated. And keep both hands inside the illusion until the sequence has come to a complete stop.....

Norton Act 2 scene 7 ... Eternity Insurance, when your policy never expires because neither do you. "Yes, but I don't want to die." "Die! You can't die, you know you can't die." “I'm dying every single breath, but I can't really die." "That's right, you can't. This is as dead as you get." "It's always the same day, always the same room. I have to keep moving. It makes me feel like I'm taking action — pacing — gives me the illusion of time, the illusion that I'm doing something, accomplishing something." "At least you recognize an illusion when you see one...."

Norton Act 2 scene 8 Bornless can't believe he blacked out again. He describes to Mike that he feels like he's sinking into the floor and that his face is sagging. The sound is getting higher, and he declares he's going to panic. He's all right now, but he's really afraid. Mike asks him what he's afraid of. Bornless doesn't know....

Norton Act 2 scene 9 "WOW!!! For one moment there it all made sense. It's gone now. It can never be the same again. Now I'll never know which one was real and which was the reflection." This is station Kay Gee Oh Dee… Kay GOD, the station that makes it. Broadcasting continuously from the edge of certainty. If everything suddenly makes sense, please pull safely to the side of reality. We now return you to Norton Street....

Norton Act 3 scene 1 ...This is station Kay Gee Oh Dee… Kay GOD, the station that makes it. If reality appears unstable do not adjust your receiver. The instability is being broadcast live. "But how can you handle the sensations, Mike, the mental contortions, the sheer terror of the situation, the total paranoia and fear of the unknown?" "Okay, what's happening now that wasn't happening before?" Bornless exclaims, "I finally see it all; the joke's on me!" "Actually the joke is on all of us. But you're right ..."

Norton Act 3 scene 2 This is station Kay Gee Oh Dee… Kay GOD, the station that makes it. Broadcasting tonight from somewhere between a computer simulation and a divine misunderstanding. If reality begins to pixelate, please remain calm and continue pretending everything is normal. "Do the faces have to change continually, too?" "Yes, O Bornless One. That's how this self-maintaining creation system of yours works," Crystal replied. "How come I keep forgetting all this?" "Because that's how the self-maintaining creation keeps from crashing and erasing itself like a Microsoft computer designed by the evil one." "Everything you see here has a price. Call each individualized thing here in Norton Street a universe in itself, if you like...."

Norton Act 3 scene 3 Bornless asks, "But what if there actually is someone out there?" "You mean like God the father, lurking just outside the front door?" ... "I don't know exactly what I mean. Maybe like a father or mother or something. That might account for why I feel watched in here." Crystal reveals, "No, the reason you feel watched in here is because you are being watched in here. We sold the rights to your life on Norton Street as an online reality show. You're going out live to YouTube and other free video hosting sites, even as we speak. You're on web cam right now...."

Norton Act 3 scene 4 "I always knew that someone was watching me, watching my every move, that there was someone spying on me behind the bathroom mirror ... All this time I've been so locked up in myself that I never saw that we were under observation. It feels really creepy to appear nightly as an online reality show. Do we have KGOD souvenir t-shirts for sale?" Official KGOD t-shirts are now available. Choose from a wide variety of sizes, colors and alternate realities. Each shirt proudly identifies you as a listener to Kay Gee Oh Dee the station that makes it. Wearing a KGOD t-shirt may increase your chances of being noticed by higher dimensional entities. Order now while supplies remain temporary.... From Red Bubble and Zazzle.

Norton Act 3 scene 5 "I can never seem to actually get out of here. Every time it appears that I've gone outside, left Norton Street and gone somewhere else, after a while I suddenly wake up as if from a bad dream and I realize I'm still here on Norton Street, still doomed to see the same 128 objects forever.... Norton Street, it's like a giant nursery in which all universes are shaped to look like toys and household objects and that somehow I was elected to play with them and to suffer here forever." "What's wrong with that?" "I don't know. I don't want to always be the one. I don't want it to always be my trip. I don't always want to win." "Oh well, winning is not part of it." Crystal continued, "You're not guaranteed to win...."

Norton Act 3 scene 6 "I just became the wall. Am I going to continually and forever melt into anything I happen to brush up against?" "Yes. O Bornless One, that is the way you set this whole thing up." "You mean anything I touch will suck me into itself, and I'll take form inside that thing in a tiny little loop of conversation and action forever and ever?" "Yes, until ..." As Gold points out in his blog — scene 6 asks the unsettling question — "If everything is alive, interconnected, and capable of absorbing our attention, where exactly do we end and the universe begin?" https://www.gorebaggsworld.com/2026/06/tonights-norton-street-episode/

Norton Act 3 scene 7 "...there's really nothing out there, nothing at all! That's really disturbing to me. And I don't understand how all three of you seem to be handling that fact quite well." ... "It's an illusion, O Bornless One. We're as freaked out as you are." "Then why don't you say that?" "I am saying it. I'm just as freaked out as you are. As a matter of fact, your panic is terribly infectious." "And there are dozens of books on those book shelves. But the books all say the same thing -- Read Me. I seemed to be trapped inside a living bubble which it turns out is actually myself, my space body, outside of which I sense total nothingness." "There is nothing out there until you expand into it, O Bornless One." "Why would I do that?..."

Norton Act 3 scene 8 ... "I'm sinking into the floor again. I feel grounded. I'm losing my charge; I feel like I'm deflating. Someone down there is doing this to me. Gravity is pulling me down. I'm melting into the floor. I'm in a total panic about this, but I figure that I've still got half a million miles more to the floor, to think of something clever to do to stop this, before I totally puddle out." "Puddle out?" "Yes, become a puddle on the floor, like some puppy took a pee right there or something." "Gosh, I think I'm puddling out too...."

Norton Act 3 scene 9 ... Broadcasting tonight from somewhere between the clickbait and the truth. "You guys tricked me into this. This is all your fault. You made me watch that Waking State video on YouTube and Meta Cafe. And then you put a button there, so, I'd end up at the Norton Street video channel. And then the next thing I knew, here I was in the Absolute at Norton Street again. Even in life I can't seem to escape ice cold bitter voidness and eternity." "Nobody made you click on the button to view the video, O Bornless One...."

Norton Act 4 scene 1 ... "Okay, when will it be over? This brain is too small to think. Well, can't you take this body off of me?" "Not really, no. It's not an organic body. It's a body of habits. The body of habits contains all your tendencies. You can't take it off, and it can never die." "Gosh, that's the worst news I've ever had." "Listen, Bornless, I can't do it for myself either. I'd love to take off my own body of habits and feel free from my meta-programming karma, too...."

Norton Act 4 scene 2 ... "I can't seem to stay alive for more than one single breathless moment at a time." "Who among us can? None of us stays alive for more than one breath. The real secret is in the moment between the outbreath and the inbreath." "What about the moment between the inbreath and the outbreath?" "That's another secret." "I want to learn how to stay here at Norton Street without fear and suffering." "So do we. We can help each other, but nobody not even you, O Bornless One, who is the one doing all this, knows all the answers...."

Norton Act 4 scene 3 ... "You guys are doing all this to me, aren't you?" "All what?" "All this. It'll be okay in a while. This too may pass. At least now I know, what makes this whole thing work. So this is how it all end up; I surrender to it all and become nothing more than a wave of improbability on an ocean of uncertainty." "That's a very poetic way of putting it." "I'd break down and cry, if it weren't so freaking funny." "Funny? What's so funny?" "This ... this ... this whole thing is funny. It's totally ridiculous. Reality and the multiverse are just one big joke...."

Norton Act 4 scene 4 ... "You can't be destroyed, Bornless. You are the one. There is no other." "The space is getting cramped again." You didn't hear those thoughts of mine just then, did you?" "Of course we did. How could we help it?"..... This is station Kay Gee Oh Dee … Kay GOD, the station that makes it. Broadcasting tonight from somewhere between the last exit and the first beginning. If you have just discovered that you are the only one, please remain calm. Other people may be provided for purposes of conversation....