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going on outside.
    “It’s us, Joely. It’s all right.”
    She opened the door, an inch—the length of chain still protecting it.
    “It’s us.”
    “Is it
just
you?” she asked.
    “Yeah.”
    “Someone was walking around your place.”
    “Yeah.”
    “They’re saying—”
    “What, on the news?”
    “Yeah, they’re saying that—”
    “Fuck the news.”
    “It’s time to go,” Levi said.
    “We’re going, Jo.”
    “You fuckers,” she said, closing the door. She slid the chain free and opened the door. “This is really happening. All your … shit.”
    “Where’s your pack?” I asked. She had a bandanna tied onto her head, a college-girl bonnet-looking thing. She was wearing cargo fatigues and a tank top, which is what she usually wore.
    “Did you pack a pack?” Levi asked.
    “We told you—”
    “I’ve got the fucking pack,” she said, turning into her dark apartment. “Jesus, what are we going—”
    “Don’t panic, Jo.”
    “We have a Plan.”

THE BOOK:

    “TWO”

    SEC. “I,” SUBSEC. “A” (“PLACE”)

    (cont’d)

(v) The strengths, weaknesses, and needs of your Place will, in time, reauthor your Narrative of self and align your existential concerns. (vi) Your Group will develop a new cultural discourse (a new culture altogether), and it is this new discursive entity—this interactive phantasm—that will orient your cognitive development into the new era. (vii) Naming your Place imbues it with cognitive force. (viii) Naming your Place alters it from inert territory to a raison d’être. (ix) It is advised that you name your Place prior to the Event, which will enhance the motivation to reach it, should you encounter difficulty executing your Event Exit Strategy.

[3] (i) Do not share the location of your Place with Outsiders, pre-Event or post.
    I.B.

    “GROUP”

[1] (i) Establish your Group before the Event. (ii) A Group offers the obvious advantage of collaborative survival, in that Members of a shared ideology and motivation become, very quickly, one social organism implied by their Place. (iii) Discuss the Group, the Place, and the Event often. (iv) In this regard, by the time the Group inhabits the Place, it will already imply a history, which is an essential component of your Narrative.

[2] (i) Your Group must first include Members who can contribute. (ii) While it may be argued that physically noncontributive members can accentuate your emotional state, including them will be a calculated risk, for as your Narrative develops, this accentuation may weaken, depending on the success or Failure of your Place. (iii) Further, physically noncontributive members consume resources and create new theaters of concern.

[3] (i) However, physical contributions can include such areas as entertainment, social cohesion, and Narrative development. (ii) This means that Members may be considered contributive if their skill sets include musical talent, brewing or distillation, esoteric horticulture, storycraft, or other such knowledges and skills. (iii) These contributions imply equipment that the Group must acquire and transport. (iv) Such transportation is a risk, but it is a delayed investment that will later enhance your Narrative and strengthen Place-Narrative.

[4] (i) Despite these possibilities, no Group can sustain Secondary Members (the aforementioned) without adequate Primary Membership (those who can endure physical labor and who can and will fight). (ii) Secondary Members do not mature into Primary Membership until the Group Arrives at the Place and establishes its first Day. (iii) For this reason, your Group should focus primarily on Members who can effect a successful Event Exit Strategy.

CHAPTER FOUR

    w here will we go?” Jo asked. She was standing at our front window, peering out between two finger-lifted blinds.
    “West,” I said, cinching a strap on a duct-taped duffel.
    “What’s out west?”
    “A Place,” Levi answered.
    Jo turned around. “What? Fuck you.