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~-^§%#@###                                          ###@#%§^-~
.~-^§%#@##             #...--------...#             ##@#%§^-~.
..~-^§%#@#       ####.-- omega point --.####        #@#%§^-~..
...~-^§%#@             #...--------...#             @#%§^-~...
....~-^§%#                                          #%§^-~....
.....~-^§% can  you feel  it? behind things, inside %§^-~.....
....~-^§%#     things, something is happening.      #%§^-~....
...~-^§%#@     something between nothing and the    @#%§^-~...
..~-^§%#@#           collapse of reality.           #@#%§^-~..
.~-^§%#@##                                          ##@#%§^-~.
~-^§%#@### the  objects  themselves  do not change. ###@#%§^-~
.~-^§%#@## the  physicality  of a person  stays the ##@#%§^-~.
..~-^§%#@#                  same.                   #@#%§^-~..
...~-^§%#@                                          @#%§^-~...
....~-^§%# but   items   have  relations  with  one #%§^-~....
.....~-^§% another,  and  here  is the  revolution. %§^-~.....
....~-^§%#    the relationships congregate, the     #%§^-~....
...~-^§%#@ networks become meshes,  and they spread @#%§^-~...
..~-^§%#@# out  like  heat  nets  over  kale farms. #@#%§^-~..
.~-^§%#@##                                          ##@#%§^-~.
~-^§%#@### things  become  part  of bigger  things. ###@#%§^-~
.~-^§%#@## people  become  part  of bigger  actors. ##@#%§^-~.
..~-^§%#@# often  too  big to be seen - but perhaps #@#%§^-~..
...~-^§%#@                  felt...                 @#%§^-~...
....~-^§%#                                          #%§^-~....
.....~-^§% lets walk backwards trough  the  sludge! %§^-~.....
....~-^§%# what's an animal? a collective of  cells #%§^-~....
...~-^§%#@        with a single mind (kinda)        @#%§^-~...
..~-^§%#@# what's  a  cell? actually  in this sense #@#%§^-~..
.~-^§%#@## it's  a collective  of cells  and lesser ##@#%§^-~.
~-^§%#@###   molecular machines ("proteins" et al)  ###@#%§^-~
.~-^§%#@##            and other fragments           ##@#%§^-~.
..~-^§%#@#                                          #@#%§^-~..
...~-^§%#@ what's  a  molecule?  just  a  bunch  of @#%§^-~...
....~-^§%# atoms bound  (fey concept) together by a #%§^-~....
.....~-^§%          set of ineffable rules          %§^-~.....
....~-^§%# what's  an  atom?  (things  are  getting #%§^-~....
...~-^§%#@ alien  at  this  point)  well  basically @#%§^-~...
..~-^§%#@#              it's an "orb"               #@#%§^-~..
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~-^§%#@###                  #.---.#                 ###@#%§^-~
.~-^§%#@##                  ###.###                 ##@#%§^-~.
..~-^§%#@#                  #.---.#                 #@#%§^-~..
...~-^§%#@                                          @#%§^-~...
....~-^§%# we're gonna lose ourselves in  it. maybe #%§^-~....
.....~-^§% we    have   been   for    some   while. %§^-~.....
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