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The Tableau: Out of Step
Inspired by excerpts from The Desire for Elsewhere by Agnes Chew
The Multitudes Within Us
I was sixteen steps and eight seconds away from you.
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16 8, 8 4, 4 2, 2 1, 1 1/2, 1/2 1/4, 1/4 1/8, 1/8 1/16, 1/16 1/32, 1/32 1/64… Ad infinitum? I paused for a moment. To continue with the repeated halving of distance would not bring me to you. Rather, it seemed to stretch to an apparent infinity that lay otherwise unspoken and unrealized between us, for the halving of any amount however small – so long it were not zero – would never quite result in the anticipated nothingness that might become of the distance that separated us.
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I am with you; I am infinitely far away from you.
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