title: Tell Me What Home is Like: A Map/Memoir in Lieu of a Place
author: John Vore
description: "The writing is stark and challenging...accomplishe[s] ...what he set out to do..." -- <i>Rich Gotshall, The Indianapolis Star, September 30, 2001</i>
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  EIGHTEEN
  
  
  It is over, now, and yet it is just beginning. I do not know if Vornan’s
  disappearance will steady us or destroy us. We may not know that for a while.
  
  I have lived in Rio for six weeks, but in such isolation that I might as well
  have been on the Moon. When the others left, I remained. My apartment is a
  small one, just two rooms, not far from the beach where Vornan’s final act was
  played. I have not left my apartment in over a month. My food is delivered
  through the house data-channel; I take no exercise; I have no friends in this
  city. I cannot even understand the language.
  
  Since the fifth of December I have occupied myself by dictating this memoir,
  which shortly will be done. I do not intend to seek publication. I have set
  down, as accurately as recollection permits, the whole story of Vornan-19’s
  stay among us, and of my involvement with him. I will seal the tape and have
  it placed in a vault, to be opened in not less than one hundred years. I have
  no wish to