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AS I WALKED THE EARTH WAS DENSE AND RESILIENT BENEATH ME, WITH THE CONSISTENCY AND FEEL OF A CORPSE. I REALIZED THAT WITH EACH STEP MY FEET PRESSED DOWN ON GENERATION UPON GENERATION OF MY DEAD ANCESTORS. THEIR BONES, THEIR ROTTED AND TRANSMUTED FLESH, HAD BECOME THE SUBSTANCE OF THE EARTH. IN EATING THE FOOD THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM THE GROUND, I ATE THEIR ESSENCE- THE FERTILITY THAT SURVIVED THEIR DECOMPOSITION. IN THIS WAY, THEY LIVED THROUGH ME AND IN ME, AS I WOULD IN TURN LIVE THROUGH ANOTHER PERSON'S CONSUMPTION OF FOOD, AIR, WATER. EVEN IN BREATHING I BREATHED A MIXTURE OF THE GASES THEIR BODIES EXUDED IN THE PROCESS OF DECOMPOSITION, OF RE-ASSIMILATION INTO THE BIOSPHERE. I BREATHED, ATE, SWALLOWED, AND CONSUMED THEIR SOULS, EVERYTHING INTERCONNECTED, EVERYTHING FEEDING ON ITSELF, SEARCHING, DIGESTING, REITERATING, COGITATING, CHEWING, IMAGINING, REJECTING, KILLING, CONSUMING, REPRODUCING, TWISTING IN ON ITSELF, DYING, DECOMPOSING, AND BEING REBORN, IN AN INFINITE REFLECTION OF ITSELF IN AN ABSOLUTE ABSENCE OF CONSCIOUS PERFECTION. IN ORDER TO PROPERLY SEE IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE SIGHT FROM MY EYES. WHEN I HAD KILLED MY SENSE OF IDENTITY I WOULD SLIP AWAY AND ENTER MYSELF, COMPRISING THE ENTIRE WORLD, OF WHICH I WAS AN INTEGRAL BUT UNNECESSARY PART.