Inside the box that is full of the past, a character rummages through a box full of the past until he finds the book in which he had written a story in which a character rummages through a box full of the past until he finds the book in which he had written a story in which a character rummages through a box full of the past until he finds the book in which previously he had written a story and so on.
In each version of the story, the character then leans back and closes his eyes.
The next moment is a convergence made from a single repeating sequence that disappears behind the voice that tells of it.
From within the motion of convergence emerges an instability, a not knowing how any of the characters got into frame or what they do afterward, that flowers in the way AM radio on a summer night swallows every foreground into tunnels of electromagnetic flux shot through with shards of commercials from Tijuana and fragments of multiple baseball games.
The author rummages through a box that is full of the past and pulls out the same story. It is an assemblage of indefinite thickness made from planes superimposed one atop the other or from a network of cracks on thin layers of foggy glass that converge on a central point and run away again or from a collection of superimposed spiders' webs or from juxtaposed onionskin maps of the infrastructures of cities.
For a long time he looks at the whole. Then places it back in the box and seals it. He slides the box back into a cabinet and closes the door again.
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a little recursive machine.
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And who am I not to appreciate recursion, as I do?
That is some giant-ass white space. It's a bit Borges here. Possibly white space with intent, or:
A giant white space.
Always enjoy seeing what you're up to.
thanks much for the reads and comments. the giant white space...the piece was on two pages. for a while i was thinking about eliminating the second part, but thought better of it once it was on a separate page. when i pasted it up here, i decided to leave the separation intact. so there we are.
the idea was to figure a way to make something recursive in which the recursion includes the dissipation of what is recurring. i figured out two ways to do it. what i haven't quite figured out is how to make these toys in a way that doesn't refer to a second piece that it characterizes from the outside....thinking about that still.