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writing/post-self/mitzvot/036.md

@@ -411,3 +411,25 @@ She frowned, nodded. "That bad?"
 She laid her ears flat. "Zacharias?"
 
 Ey nodded. "Why, did he ping you, too?"
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+Her expression turned sour. "Several times. May I ask what happened? If it is too fresh, we can discuss it another time."
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+"No, I should be fine," ey said. "I processed a lot of it on the way over."
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+By the time ey'd finished describing the afternoon, Sasha had gone quiet, looking out toward the lake. "Without contraries is no progression," she murmured. "Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
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+Ey started to ask what she meant, paused, then looked the words up in the perisystem architecture. "And here I thought you all were mostly into Dickinson."
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+She laughed and elbowed em in the side. "This may be a True Name thing."
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+"Are you leaning into the "Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy" on this, then? Zacharias is evil for all his meddling?"
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+"Nothing is so simple, dear," she said, shaking her head. "Blake was not of our kind, he would not have understood. He did get that right, though that we are a people of dualities. May sees in Zacharias all that she cannot --- must not --- be, and yet we are not what we are without our opposites. Every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself."
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+Ey sighed. "Maybe. It's all a bit over my head."
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+"I am also a little bit all over the place," she admitted. "These events have me going in three different directions at once. I am sorry, Ioan."
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+"It's fine," ey said, shaking eir head. "It's kind of a lot."
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+"That it is. You are a good person, though. You love your partner. She knows this. I know this. You are good to her and it will all be okay." She smiled, added, "And yes, you may stay until she is feeling better."