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On one side, when the starlings form a Klein bottle and fly through it the space they enter is not the space they leave: they spiral lower and the ceiling opens so the room can receive them; they disappear into the television monitor and bring the daylight with them.
I follow what pulls me forward.
On the other side, the birds generalize into the unstable darkness over streetlights and the day before and everything that was in it rains down like pieces of a puzzle among telephone poles and building walls overgrown with the vines on which surveillance cameras grow.
The transition from subject to object is the reversal of figure and ground.
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Author's Note
I have been away from here for a few months thanks to an academic book project that ate my life. It's gone away for now and I'm working my way back into making sentences that I like. I decided to do a Nano project. I'm ignoring the word count. I think it's the best way. This is the first piece from the new sequence. I think it's about surveillance and forgetting mostly. We'll see. The project is here:
http://postreality.tumblr.com/
I'll be fading back in around here soon as well. Looking forward to it.
Hope you enjoy this peculiar little story.
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Gotta love anything with the warp of a Klein bottle. Especially like the last sentence, in its context.
I did enjoy this peculiar little story. Nice perceptual shift.
Nice piece.
Lovely. Thoughts and words.
thanks much for having a look and for the comments.
making these pieces is like playing an instrument---there's a period of feeling one's way back into it that follows a layoff, of getting one's chops back in order. keep working and see what happens.
Nice piece. Great last sentence. "pieces of the puzzle" is a great touch.
I forgot the *
Nice writing, Stephen. *
thanks very much for having a looks and for the lovely comments.
like i said above, this comes out of working my way back into the process, so it's particularly pleasing to find that the piece works for you.