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\noindent Apophenia
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\begin{ally}
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What?
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\end{ally}
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Apophenia. Connections. Imaginary lines traced from topic to topic in cheap butcher's twine.
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\begin{ally}
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And the topics?
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\end{ally}
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Imaginary. Or real, but only half remembered. I'm spinning a web.
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\begin{ally}
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Are you catching something?
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\end{ally}
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You?
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\begin{ally}
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Are you answering with a question?
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\end{ally}
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I'm unsure.
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\begin{ally}
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You're not catching me in that.
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\end{ally}
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You sound so final.
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\begin{ally}
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Not my department.
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\end{ally}
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Right. Is that a fact, then? I'm not catching you in this web. Are you the web?
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\begin{ally}
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Not my department.\index{ally!Not my department}
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\end{ally}
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The spaces between, then. The negative spaces outlined by twine wrapped around pins. There are connections--
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\begin{ally}
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Or not.
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\end{ally}
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--or not, and there are topics, imaginary or not, and then there's you, there, in the place between. You, the liminal creature. You, defined by absence.
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\begin{ally}
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Presence and absence are not my department, either.
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\end{ally}
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Are you some cousin to apophenia, then? Some relative to that \emph{unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness}? Are you that numinous, abnormal meaningfulness?
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\begin{ally}
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I am easier to define in negatives. I am not presence and absence, but between them. Beyond them. Your ally, but not your friend. Real enough to impinge on your reality, but totally imaginary. \textbf{Not} here. \textbf{Not} doing. \textbf{Not} thinking, feeling, acting.\index{ally!I am not your friend}
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\end{ally}
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So, are you?
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\begin{ally}
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Anything else is just pareidolia.
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\end{ally}
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