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August 7, 2010
A COMPUTER SIMULATION
You are looking at a screen because paper is too slow. You come across a sentence that has something wrong with it. You are looking a screen because paper is too slow. This is what you read or read. Maybe you're really reading--in either case: simulation.

"What's that rattling, Sue?"
"It's me."
"Keys, or coins?"
"Neither. It's just me. Me rattling."
"What are you doing rattling?"
"Sympathetic magic, pathetic fallacy, rhyme."
"Really?"
"I'm just a person who's rattled--thus I rattle."
"Like a snake."
"A rattle snake."
"I see."
"I can hardly get through a day."