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78 lines
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<h1>Zk | 026</h1>
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<p>date: 2019-09-23
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weight: 26</p>
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<p>Apophenia</p>
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<p>What?</p>
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<p>Apophenia. Connections. Imaginary lines traced from topic to topic in cheap butcher’s twine.</p>
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<p>And the topics?</p>
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<p>Imaginary. Or real, but only half remembered. I’m spinning a web.</p>
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<p>Are you catching something?</p>
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<p>You?</p>
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<p>Are you answering with a question?</p>
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<p>I’m unsure.</p>
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<p>You’re not catching me in that.</p>
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<p>You sound so final.</p>
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<p>Not my department.</p>
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<p>Right. Is that a fact, then? I’m not catching you in this web. Are you the web?</p>
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<p>Not my department.</p>
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<p>The spaces between, then. The negative spaces outlined by twine wrapped around pins. There are connections–</p>
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<p>Or not.</p>
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<p>–or not, and there are topics, imaginary or not, and then there’s you, there, in the place between. You, the liminal creature. You, defined by absence.</p>
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<p>Presence and absence are not my department, either.</p>
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<p>Are you some cousin to apophenia, then? Some relative to that <em>unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness</em>? Are you that numinous, abnormal meaningfulness?</p>
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<p>I am easier to define in negatives. I am not presence and absence, but between them. Beyond them. Your ally, but not your friend. Real enough to impinge on your reality, but totally imaginary. <strong>Not</strong> here. <strong>Not</strong> doing. <strong>Not</strong> thinking, feeling, acting.</p>
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<p>So, are you?</p>
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<p>Anything else is just pareidolia.</p>
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