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writing/post-self/qoheleth/Ioan/003-d.md

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 
 The grin and the sense of pride that Dear had greeted em with did not last.
 
-"Thanks again for the offer of space," Ioan repeated. "I know I was driving \#Tracker nuts. I guess I talk to myself."
+"Thanks again for the offer of space," Ioan repeated. "I know I was driving \#tracker nuts. I guess I talk to myself."
 
-Silence, awkward.
+Silence. Awkward.
 
 "Of course." Dear's partner picked up when the fox did not reply. "You can stay as long as you'd like. It's no trouble. You could probably scream bloody murder over there and we wouldn't here."
 
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ Ioan stood to follow Dear as it padded from the living room back to the front of
 
 "Of course."
 
-*"You seem like the type, yes. An historian searches for stories in the past."* True to eir guess, Dear was now grinning more easily, gesturing to a painting on the wall. *"All artists search. I search for stories, in this post-self age. What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you've split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?"*
+*"You seem like the type, yes. An historian searches for stories in the past."* True to eir guess, Dear was now smiling more easily, gesturing to a painting on the wall. *"All artists search. I search for stories, in this post-self age. What happens when you can no longer call yourself an individual, when you've split your sense of self among several instances? How do you react? Do you withdraw into yourself, become a hermit? Do you expand until you lose all sense of identity? Do you fragment? Do you go about it deliberately, or do you let nature and chance take their course?"*
 
-The speech felt rehearsed. All those questions. It hooked Ioan all the same. "I suppose that is what an instance artist is, then. Finding the stories inherent in forking."
+The speech felt rehearsed. All those questions. A lecture? It hooked Ioan all the same. "I suppose that is what an instance artist is, then. Finding the stories inherent in forking."
 
 *"Yes. Forking is instantaneous, and yet in that instant, a story is told. There's a question implied to which the answer is 'I must create a copy of myself'. Is it to accomplish a task, like you have done? Is it to sequester some emotion unable to be contained by one mind?"* Dear forked, another instance of it standing to the other side of Ioan. *"Perhaps it's to prove a point."*
 
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ Dear made a graceful setting-aside gesture, as though the statement was in some
 
 The painting itself showed a riot of colors. Abstract, and yet hinting at some cyclonic force. Blue on green. Splotches of purple, of red. The paint shone  under the lights.
 
-Ioan and Dear stood in front of the painting a minute longer, each thinking their thoughts. The fox, with its paws clasped behind its back, looked to be trying to puzzle out the order in which the gobs of paint had been applied to canvas. Ioan found emself wondering what this cyclonic force was reaching towards. What it was destroying.
+Ioan and Dear stood in front of the painting a minute longer, each thinking their thoughts. The fox, with its paws clasped behind its back, looked to be trying to puzzle out the order in which the gobs of paint had been applied to canvas.
+
+Ioan found emself wondering what this cyclonic force was reaching towards. What it was destroying.
 
 It was Ioan who broke the silence. "Why are you upset, Dear?"
 
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ Ey nodded.
 
 "And others don't?"
 
-Dear shrugged. *"I am perhaps in a minority, on this subject. I think there's a story, and there are a few others who see it my way. Most of my branch does. But much of the clade is mostly concerned about the Name."*
+Dear shrugged. *"I am perhaps in a minority, on this subject. I think there's a story, and there are a few others who see it my way. Most of my branch does. But much of the clade is concerned only about the Name."*
 
 Stepping over to the next picture, Ioan formulated their response, but was preempted by the fox.
 
@@ -67,9 +69,9 @@ Stepping over to the next picture, Ioan formulated their response, but was preem
 
 "Are they the story?" Ioan frowned, backtracked. "You think there's a reason you're being led down the path. The puzzles are part of the story, but they are, as you put it, the answer to the question that necessitated their creation."
 
-Ears perked, grin returning. *"Yes. Puzzles are puzzles and sometimes worth solving in their own right. I want to know **why**, though. Why say the Name, yes, but why build up tension like this?"*
+Ears perked, grin returned. *"Yes. Puzzles are puzzles and sometimes worth solving in their own right. I want to know **why**, though. Why say the Name, yes, but why build up tension like this?"*
 
-The painting: a landscape, a cloud-dotted sky, nigh photorealistic. And in the middle, a black square.
+The painting: a landscape, perhaps the prairie just outside. A cloud-dotted sky, nigh photorealistic. And in the middle, a black square.
 
 Not just black paint, but a black that seemed to eat light. A black the hurt to look at. It made Ioan uncomfortable.
 

writing/post-self/qoheleth/index.md

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Check when edited
     * [X] Chapter: [Ioan 003](Ioan/003-c) - trying to figure out archive with Dear, gets in, finds pgpkey. Frustration at another encryption method, discussing diff between exocortex and archive.
     * [X] Chapter: [RJ 009](RJ/009) --- Home is unlocked
     * [X] Chapter: [Carter 006](Carter/006) --- Carter dreams of shadows
-    * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 003](Ioan/003-d) --- Moves in with Dear, who is upset that no one else seems to be taking this quite so seriously
+    * [X] Chapter: [Ioan 003](Ioan/003-d) --- Moves in with Dear, who is upset that no one else seems to be taking this quite so seriously
     * [O] Chapter: [RJ 010](RJ/010) --- No water, no coffee, dreamlike books
     * [O] Chapter: [Ioan 004](Ioan/004) --- Ioan working, Dear's in a good mood
     * [O] Chapter: [Sasha 001](Sasha/001) --- Sasha meets with Caitlin