The Nature of Building
When Harvey finally managed to get over his existential crisis, he sat up and looked to the sky, although that was not necessarily where the voice of the all-powerful narrator was coming from. He had just found out that his unhealthy rivalry with professional house building companies was the result of the narrator just doing their job, and he had a few questions about the nature of his existence as a result. “Why me, though?” Harvey asked of the narrator. “My life is completely boring. Every day, I get up, go to work renting out beach shacks in Dromana, then come home and be jealous of the luxury builders near me. Surely that’s not worth a story.” The narrator decided that honesty would indeed continue to be the best policy. They would have to be quite vague, though, otherwise the bosses – or worse, the algorithms – might be displeased.…