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Time Paradox

Submitted by somebody_else on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 7:09pm

I have not lately asked your opinion on the irrelevant but

ever-present questions floating through my mind

[if you cut your finger and blood drips onto a leaf of a tree,

would the tree become a part of you?];

somehow, it seems rude to ask if there is a demon in your clockwork

mind to keep the springs wound tight enough for you to continue

functioning.

Paradoxes are drifting in and out of my head

[if I went back in time and told you I would fall in love with you,

would I still fall?], but I keep my mouth closed and the walls around my brain

firmly in place, because the delicate strands of spider

silk connecting me to myself would break at your gentle

touch; they cannot produce the melodies you coax from my

heartstrings.

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I just love this, which feels

Submitted by booklover on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 4:20pm.

I just love this, which feels redundant to say, given the button, but I had to comment just to say how much I love the image of the demon in the clockwork mind. Brilliant.

Thank you so much--I sorta

Submitted by somebody_else on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 10:01pm.

Thank you so much--I sorta borrowed the demon in the clockwork from Terry Pratchett, but combining that with the clockwork mind was my idea.

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