radiant fracture

...remarkable that they exist at all, is what I'm saying. As opposed to remarkable in themselves. The main thing is that I wrote something using this method, not that I wrote something that was good.

Anyway. I'll just give you the highlights.

The top drawer contained only a stack of clean handkerchiefs and a new concept in personal comfort.

We all laughed out loud, more from a deep drain in the centre of the floor, a musty odour and curl of smoke rose of sharon. Seeing that it wouldn't hurt, but once I heard the stutter of the tattoo gun, I knew my chest, knocking her backwards. She seemed almost to hop in a question I could not formulate even for myself. "If this is it," I said, "Then rather than stars and colder than night: it all collapses."

This process works better with more than one person, clearly. Then, it juxtaposes different habits of thought, contrasting syntactic reflexes. Much of what I left out I omitted for being too coherent, rather than the opposite, which seems weird (even uncomfortable) in itself. Maybe this is a bit like brushing the dust off what might be the foundation stones of the story always running in my mind. Or maybe it's February.

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