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Veld

A short interactive correspondence with Veld, writing to you from a distant future.

Veld lives long after a time she calls the Dusk, and keeps the fragments of a century that is yours. She writes you six letters. You write her five back. Along the way, on the basis of what you wrote, she walks one of four paths through your life. No account, no deadline, no score. But a name, four branches and a last letter shaped to you.

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Caput · Hoe het werkt Caput · How it works

Een boek dat terugkijkt. A book that looks back.

  1. Six letters from Veld

    Veld opens. She asks the kind of questions you rarely get. Reply when you have time, today, next week, in a month. The letters wait.

  2. Five replies from you

    Each reply is a choice between three or four sentences. No typing, no open fields. What you pick shifts Veld's sense of who you are and which path she takes in her next letter.

  3. Four branches, one final letter

    Your first reply puts you on one of four paths through your life: the carrying-heart, the long knowing, the second life, the thousand voices. The sixth letter is for you alone.

Caput · Waarom dit anders is Caput · Why this is different
  • Nothing for sale

    No account, no email, no cookies. No subscription, no pop-up, no newsletter. You read, you reply, you leave whenever you like.

  • A link is your progress

    Your progress lives entirely in the URL, compressed and unreadable to others. Copy it, mail it to yourself, paste it in a note. Next time you simply pick up where you were.

  • Slow time

    Six letters over six months, six weeks, six days, Veld is in no hurry. There's no deadline, no leaderboard, no achievement. A letter is allowed to wait a while.

Caput · In the spirit of

A short epistolary novel about the time that runs loose in your century and stands still in Veld's. Written for anyone who sometimes wants to read something quieter than a feed.

Caput · Uit het dagboek Caput · From the journal

Vanuit het maken. From the making.

  1. xviii may mmxxvi Six letters, four branches, one reader
Veld Folio · MMXXVI