The Office 1977: I would often see Tom out in the yard on smoke breaks as my window was right there. And the Totem was always with him; it followed him everywhere. We often joked that it was his little pet. Tom was brought in through Berkeley;...
A CREATIVE FICTION: Early 1980s: A dot matrix printer in a university laboratory begins to operate spontaneously, producing an unusual printout. The printout features a series of familiar symbols which eventually combine to reveal an image of an obelisk or totem. The printout becomes known as the 'Totem...