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.~~†$£@### can you feel it? behind  things,  inside ###@£$†~~.
....~†$£@#     things, something is happening.      #@£$†~....
.~†$£@####    something between nothing and the     ####@£$†~.
.~~†$£@###           collapse of reality.           ###@£$†~~.
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.~~†$£@### the  objects themselves  do not  change. ###@£$†~~.
......~†£@ the  physicality of a  person  stays the @£†~......
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.~~†$£@### but  items   have  relations   with  one ###@£$†~~.
.~~†$££@## another, and  here  is  the  revolution. ##@££$†~~.
.~~†$£@@@@     the relationships congregate, the    @@@@£$†~~.
.~~†$££@## networks become meshes, and  they spread ##@££$†~~.
.~~†$£@### out  like  heat  nets over  kale  farms. ###@£$†~~.
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.~~†$£@### things  become part  of  bigger  things. ###@£$†~~.
.~~†$£@### people  become part  of  bigger  actors. ###@£$†~~.
....~††$$@ often  too big to be seen -  but perhaps @$$††~....
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.~~†$£@### lets  walk  backwards trough the sludge! ###@£$†~~.
.~~†$£@### what's an animal?  a collective of cells ###@£$†~~.
....~†£@##        with a single mind (kinda)        ##@£†~....
....~†££@# what's  a cell? actually in  this  sense #@££†~....
.~~†$£@### it's  a collective  of  cells and lesser ###@£$†~~.
.~~†$££££@  molecular machines ("proteins" et al)   @££££$†~~.
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....~††££# 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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