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INCREDIBLE ideas incredibly written here-- I immediately screeshotted the bit about the ants lusting after your toast and how sharing takes you out of the frame of a moment. It made me think about this quote (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/541239-we-drove-22-miles-into-the-country-around-farmington-there) from a Don Delillo book, where he talks about capturing a moment as a detachment from it, as you were saying, but also as a collective creation of something new. The tourists at the top of that Thai canyon may be missing out on something present, but they are still engaging in and creating a new thing together— taking a collective experience or idea and filtering it in a new way. Isn't that what writing is too? GREAT food for thought, I thoroughly enjoyed :)

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Wordsmith 🏆🏆🏆

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