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"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? ... You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!"

"Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."

"Well it's no use your talking about waking him when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Thursday, September 2, 2004

You want real?

But you're an octopus in a tank, a tank of water pumped through the veins, testicles, lungs, of this one known artifice: what are you writing there? That you? That's you, your reflection on the glass morphing in the ink, you in simulation. Reflect? Yes you think; you think and think you are, you see it, you, even as your reflection absolves you from your thinking, becomes another thing, a thing passing, past: what the dark glass lets go, lets loose, a reflection. Nothing more.

Something: I might be paranoid.

"and what is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?"


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