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kenmeer livermaile
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We don't find non-existent patterns; we make them up.


Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher
 
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The discovery of the mundane quite deflates our apophenia, you're right.


I would reparse that as 'the perception of mundanity, et cetera', but even then, apohenia's most mundane quality, that is, its definitional sine qua non, is to transform the mundane into the wondrous.

(kenmeer is suddenly attacked by a swarm of nits, as he deserves
I was distilling something already well distilled by Fuldog.

Your re-complexifying it.

Of course, Fuldog has to, he's drinking Mexican water.
 
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We don't find non-existent patterns; we make them up.
I go so far as to paint a grid on my landscape. The birds won't sit still though, they therefore don't exist.

My world has a disproportionate amount of fat sunbathers.
 
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I mostly hate happy endings. Also in this case.


~Alcohol's supposed to kill braincells. So how come there's more voices in my head the more I drink~
 
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I prefer inconclusive endings.


»» "Forget infinity. I've got books waiting for me to read them." — colin
»»"Speculative novels of last Tuesday." — William Gibson
 
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Your re-complexifying it.


How apophenic of me.


Space must flow past the ports like wine from a pitcher
 
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I prefer inconclusive endings.


So does the electorate.
 
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