Pretty Boy Crossover: 7 Powerful Pages

Pretty Boy Crossover (1986) by Pat Cadigan
First you see video Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video.
It's hard to explain how 7 pages can move someone so much. The concepts of beauty, heaven, self, identity, virtue, and independence shine bright from the beginning until the final words. What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be beautiful, wanted, desired? Is freedom more important than existence? For something to be beautiful, does it have to eventually be not beautiful? What does it mean for someone to give up their physical existence to forever have something that they desire? Does it change things if that desired thing is as shallow as being Pretty, being desired, and being entertained?
All of this, and more, is explored in 7 pages. Beautiful.