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Well the word “explaining” comes to mind. It makes me tired. But I think what the real thing is, is that—I don’t know. He was calling it the “knight’s move”? You’re going towards something, and then at the last minute you swerve to the side. Towards the bridge with no center. Um . . . yeah. It reminds me not to work it out, like not choreograph it per se. All those things kind of sync, so that the decisions you make in the moment are authentic. That’s the word I was looking for: authentic. It’s like, that’s the goal and it’s a really, really hard job. I think that’s why it makes me nauseous because everything, every fiber of my being does not want to be authentic. Does not wanna . . .\n</p>\n<p><b>\n\tWu Tsang</b>, speaking at minute 7 of Miss Communication and Mr:Re\n</p><p> </p><p><p>\n\tBut still I’m thinkin’. . . Overwhelms. Which is really interesting, right? But independent, but even-bzz-but beyond that . . . Spectacle. I wanted to say underlay. 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