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"An event doesn't conclude after occurring once; it returns."[ 1 ]
An event. It happens once. It does not end there. It comes back.
The sentence is fragmented into lines of text. It's not easily read in one go. Can't maintain long breaths, might describe it as, briefly, like this: Event, reads, waits. Closed eyes briefly, opened again. Returned to a moment ago. Event, remembered. Continues reading. Once it occurs. Connects past and present. Event occurs once. Continues forward. Doesn't stop at the event. An event doesn't conclude after occurring once. Requires waiting for the future. It returns.
"An event doesn't conclude after occurring once; it returns."
In the discovered sentence, it sees passing time and approaching time. The past and future meet through events. Through many breaths.
The present arrives afterward.
The document carriers are busy. They are moving people. They move along the walls. They... for now, they decide to just be themselves. They do not explain themselves. They do not leave gaps. They move tirelessly. They move along the walls. The walls guide them. The walls endure them. The walls accept them.
The floor pushes them away.
The document carriers are busy but they do not move very quickly. They do not feel the need to be fast. One might even say they are slow. They adjust the speed of their movement using their own bodies. Elbows touch the wall, shoulders brush against it, foreheads lean against it, thighs press against it. They proceed relying sequentially on different parts of their bodies. They get bruises in every nook and cranny of their bodies and do not care about them. Similar bruises spread. Their bodies resemble each other.
The floor continues to push them away.
It's difficult to gauge where they began. If there's a wall somewhere, one might speculate that they exist somewhere alongside it. Walls just end up being there. Walls can suddenly be there. They form an inevitable relationship with them. Regardless of any need. If that's where the wall started, that's where they started. They began with the wall, you could say that, write it down, they are written.
We don't write where they appeared from. They do not appear. They cannot appear. It might be said they refuse to appear, but it seems closer to them to consider that they do not recognize the phenomenon of appearing. They're just getting started. People who started.
Pushed away from the floor.
They are being written as "they," but to them, they are not themselves. They do not accompany themselves. Therefore, one might not call them "they." They move independently. They explore as they move. Exploration becomes their primary attribute. Accustomed to exploration, they do not recognize each other's existence. They continue to explore without recognizing themselves. Because they have not recognized themselves, they can continue to explore. The distance between them is thus acquired.
The floor connects them.
The name given to document carriers implies the act and purpose of delivering documents. However, no one has seen them deliver documents. Again, they do not appear. They move. They travel. Movement for travel, this is their primary task. The traces of their movement may be left in some form somewhere, but what remains is not what they intended. They do not know what they leave behind. They still do not appear, still moving along the wall.
They do not know themselves as document carriers. Therefore, they cannot refuse to be document carriers, just like innate document carriers. They are not innate document carriers, yet they are no different from innate document carriers. Nothing changes. It is assumed that documents can be delivered at any time. Document carriers are assumed to deliver documents at any time. Documents and document carriers, sharing time that does not arrive, share a single innate destiny.
If the document can be a possibility, then document carriers are those who move possibilities. The moved possibility does not play any role. It changes position, but that is not the intention of the possibility. If document carriers are those who have the potential to deliver documents, then document carriers move possibilities as possibilities themselves. Multiple possibilities may amplify the possibility, but they are powerless to fulfill the possibility. Possibilities remain as possibilities.
Documents and document carriers share each other. They are also each other's subjects. The inevitable relationship between walls and document carriers repeats between document carriers and documents.
Document carriers sometimes precede documents. Document carriers are unaware of such situations.
Documents sometimes precede document carriers. Documents are unaware of such situations.
Document carriers can call documents backgrounds, characters, or events.
Documents can call document carriers events, characters, or backgrounds.
Document carriers can touch, crumple, or tear documents. They can hold documents in their hands or put them in their pockets. Documents may be wedged between the sides of document carriers or hung around their necks. Documents can even overlook document carriers from above their heads.
Documents do not get close to the floor.
Event. It occurs once. But it does not end there. It returns.
If that is a possibility.
The present comes afterward.
If that's the case
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Olivia Rosenthal, "Survival Mechanisms in Hostile Situations," translated into Korean by Han Guk-hwa, Alma, 2020, page 7.