Thursday, March 11, 2010

A woman and a female child once set out to discover something new. But they discovered something old, that they had long forgotten about. It shocked them and it thrilled them to find that something they thought had been buried was still there. It had been there all along, it just hadn't occurred to them that it needed further attention before it could be buried. They tried to give it a name, so they could both see something in it that connected them to it. They argued back and forth until they were worn out. The woman left and never came back. The child kept looking at the thing and decided it didn't have a name, that the child could not even decide exactly what it was. It grew and the child could no longer carry it. She had long tried to understand it, but decided it could no longer be carried by her. The child had no choice but to leave it, despite not understanding it and not having quite finished with it yet. I don't know whatever happended to that child.

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