Looking away does not restore the ordinary; absence becomes another way of seeing.
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Look away when the shape begins to explain you. Count three doors, two windows, the vein in your left hand. Look back. The field has not moved. You have.
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An unscheduled shape interrupts a plan and creates a different kind of time around itself.
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