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[proximoception]

For a while I was outraged that no one had explained what it would be like and why it would be like that - I was sure the explanation would have made it different, might not have made "all the difference" but in some contexts any difference, however tiny, is an all. I was right. Their silence sets fire to the arms of the drowning. But they're silent because they're drowning or drowned. To walk is to sink, and they were way ahead of me.

And who have I told? Some - but people react to such things as they do to confessions of terrible crimes. With silence: that silence of there's you and then there's them (or the silence that tries to make it so). Which is just what you weren't trying to tell them.

I almost ask why the solution is feared so much worse than the problem, but know that that's exactly what you'd expect to see in any world more than a day old. Things you could bear to fix already have been.