An event is coming but
we don’t name it directly.
Most of the
conversations we have allude to the event but we phrase them cleverly so that
they won’t run into any trouble, like, having to use distasteful or disturbing
words. Explicit words. The cause of the event and the effect of the event and
the name of the event itself.
Allusion and
implication help to remove us from the event, help to build a little Perspex
screen between us and it. We can keep the screen clear if we want, but,
luckily, we can also let it fog up a bit, when things feel too overwhelming. We
can even let it get dirty.
Dirt does a better job
of obscuring the event than fog.
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