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<p>It is hard to pull myself back upstream against the overwhelming current of so many thoughts. Already these waters have eroded the banks of the stream. Already these whorls ache within me. Already I feel my skin pruning, going soft, as though it may soon slough off under the onslaught of this investigation.</p>
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<p>And even if it doesn’t slough off, I will still be more vulnerable, will I not? I will still keep digging at these various selves and my skin, weakened by water, will break and tear, and stain these various mes pink.</p>
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<p>(Time War quote)</p>
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<p>It’s not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It’s that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now, it’s as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood.\footnote{\parencite[119]{timewar}}</p>
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<p>Ah, even my words are colored rosy from all this exploration!</p>
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<p>I cannot stop, though, can I? I dragged myself upstream and felt that singular me delaminate, and now I am…what, three? Four? That paper-thin me sheared off into impossibly thinner selves, so sheer that, holding them up to the sun, one would still be blinded, the edges disappearing into invisibility.</p>
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