Fatamorgana

That word-Fatamorgana-isn't used in English.

It means mirage. Not fatal morgue for Ana.;-)

If that's all you needed, you got it.

But if you're still curious-

This is the story of one woman moving through the Proximity Economy: a landscape of signaling, extraction, and illusion. Told with sharp insight, dark humor, and plainspoken intelligence, it's a portrait of work, power, and rebellion-messy, personal, and long overdue.

Sarah Majdov writes with unapologetic clarity about living in the shadow of the Switch. She moves through systems built on performance and proximity, showing the reader what it's like inside the machine. She calls it the Proximity Economy-a system built on inherited digital machinery, signaling games, and Nothing People extracting money from society, hoarding the wealth that machinery generates. Neither the money nor the machinery should be theirs-they inherited it from original engineers long gone, six feet under.

Some scenes unspool like cinema. The end of Day 69 is pure poetry. Living Through the DEI Era and They Weren't Meant to Be Divided might unsettle you. The Art of Signaling takes you backstage. And The Years, at the very end, just might undo you.