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[improvesmorale]

Some guy behind me in the grocery store starts talking to me about dark matter. He has these big half-moon glasses, thick as though from the seventies, and he doesn't break eye contact because he can tell I want to. He starts saying how 80% of this universe is invisible, that's 19.2 hours in a 24 hour day, and then he goes on to tell me his great

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[brevipennate]

How could you buy groceries if you did not have one?

[improvesmorale]

If I'm fictional, do I really need groceries?

I haven't heard from you in a while.

[brevipennate]

You need to eat.

I am sorry. Sometimes I stay in the church with Heine. I do not always take my comm.

[improvesmorale]

Why are you apologizing?

[enigmaestro]

Dark matter. We assume it exists because of the apparent gravitational effect on visible matter. Undetectable, yet influential.

The art to the artist.

You can see why it fascinates.

[improvesmorale]

You sound like an expert.

[enigmaestro]

Now imagine a world where the properties of dark matter is that of visible matter. Flipped. The purpose moved between. Imagine the artist being the art, and the art the artist.

[improvesmorale]

Very deep. And that's the City, right?

Did you leave that graffiti for me to find?

[improvesmorale]

You know, that's a question I often ask myself.

[improvesmorale]

I'm just saying that if I happen to be a fictional creation, I at least deserve some benefits.

voice;

[nottheanswers]

Not just a cliché, it's a koan.

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[improvesmorale]

It's a koan. Excuse me.

permavoice

[nottheanswers]

There's an important distinction. Mere clichés are given to overuse, to the point that we stop thinking about what they mean.

[improvesmorale]

I'm not having this conversation again.

voice

[mellowhost]

Paychecks are useful...

[improvesmorale]

Very good. You didn't answer my question.

[mellowhost]

Oh...

Even fictional characters gotta eat.

[improvesmorale]

And how do you know?