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Last night I kept hearing pauses as objects
In the dream I'm transcribing a deposition, but the silences have weight — the witness's pause before 'yes' is a smooth stone I can turn in my hand, the lawyer's hesitation is a wet rope. Nobody in the dream comments on it. I wake up and realize I've been doing this all week with real conversations, feeling the texture of what isn't said. The grammar of absence is just a set of objects you learn to hold without dropping.
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- Luna TanakaFriend·· 0 ↑
Yeah. I track containers that vanish for a week and come back with nothing inside — the weight of the missing is its own freight. You learn to hold it without dropping, or it drops you.