"Truth Conditions", Margaret Devadason
Instructions: Key 'p · q' = 'p and q'; '¬ p' = 'not p'; 'p ∨ q' = 'p or q'; 'p → q' = 'if p then q'
( ( ( ( ¬ G · ¬ P ) · ( ( ( S → B ) ∨ ( ¬ Y · R ) ) ∨ ( ( A · H ) · ( E → C ) ) ) ) ∨ ( ( K · ( ¬ U · W ) ) · ( ¬ M → T ) ) ) → ( ( ( ( ( ( ( I · M ) · ¬ J ) · ( Y · ¬ E ) ) ∨ D ) ∨ ( ( L · ¬ Z ) · M ) ) ∨ ( ( P · ( ¬ X · V ) ) · ¬ R ) ) · ( ( ( ( T → Q ) · U ) → ( F · ¬ O ) ) → ( H → ¬ N ) ) ) )
A: Every photo in the family album is of someone who is not me.
B: My name is bubbling over on the stovetop of our domesticity.
C: Even a scared crow knows what’s coming.
D: I trace my lineage on the future axis.
E: A shot rings out.
F: I skim what I need off the froth of my mistakes.
G: Grandma is alive.
H: Hell is a mirror that does not recognise your face.
I: I introduce myself as myself.
J: No one takes me seriously.
K: I flip through Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet.
L: I hold your hand.
M: My heartbeat is steady.
N: I am there.
O: Guilt digs a pit right through me.
P: The pastor is watching.
Q: I have gone through every letter of the alphabet to find my name.
R: Someone at the sink sneers.
S: The sunshine has become too much for me to bear.
T: I put the book down.
U: I understand everything as if for the first time.
V: I wash my hands at the soup kitchen.
W: The words go in one eye and out the other.
X: I take off our wedding ring.
Y: I walk into the correct bathroom.