Sample Size

When the third plane hit, even those unacquainted with first attempts, knew. A sample size of all the buildings? A sample size of two? On that fateful day in 2008, I saw the buildings. But it wasn't an aircraft that concerned my mind. It was prosaic, low resolution cellphone images. Simple coordination in a timely manner. That takes a long time to build. It is simple to apply. The moral sensibility, says perry, the moral sensibility is the buffer here where I live, against the crack of supersonic shockwaves traveling hundreds of meters.

Once the lattice has come under tension, it takes energy to stay where you are though. It was always only a matter of time before people realized that such gentle means were necessary, once "be it resolved that the coordination mechanism"...

It takes time, these things. Never saw a goddamned turban in my damned life. Never saw the Dune eyes in my fondest dreams. I told them it was going to happen. They assumed my panic meant that I expected it at any moment (and were others so labile, it could). The dynamic was always slow.

It was a slow, agonizing, bleeding panic that leaked over years, ever so slowly poisoning my brain with blood.