mazelike/rhizomatic/immanent/emergent are not antithetical to a transcendent real but its very manifestation

Style

"Put a blanket."

"Anyway, you're you. I mean, look at you!" she says. "You could get with anyone, anyone in the street. Really."

She says something that isn't really right but isn't really wrong. I'm not taking in their words any more, just their voices, trying to get a feel for whatever is going on between them. I'm imagining what it's like for them in this delicate situation, what I would say if it were me. She has that perfect upper-class accent, and she's using whatever upper-class tact that comes with it to navigate this. Style. They can't be together, but their voices are betraying them.

hiding from the rain

Wed, 11 Nov 2025 21:12:41

There is a pause. She ashes her cigarette. It falls on me. It seems like the birds have stopped too.

Thank you, Jack

I wonder if the birds knew I was watching?

Above and behind a window opens and a cigarette hangs out.

i have read not even 1 book

propensity within someone

as in

something religious, a kind of complex,

it will get lighter

like people can read 100 books and still not have the fire within them

is this you as well