tolpen: A waist-up portrait of the Soft-Eyed Mycologist. He is a man with dark skin and long dark hair, wearing a cyan waistcoat a white shirt. He is lifting a red mask from his face. He is wearing large round golden pince-nez. (the soft-eyed mycologist)
Tolpen ([personal profile] tolpen) wrote in [community profile] benthic_university 2025-06-26 08:30 am (UTC)

Re: Lecture

Now this is an interesting setup, the Soft-Eyed Mycologist thinks not so softly. An expensive setup, no less. Someone cares. He pulls his goggles down. He's been using his own the whole time, one lens tinted black with silver, the other tinted light blue (Or is it apocyan? It might be apocyan.)

Well then. Let's study.
a distance between meaningsa spatial distortiona future destroyedcollision of bodies
a resounding quality
(Oh, hello again.)
erratic movementsforbidden / excised
forgetful / incapable of memorya trap, sprungan empty spacethe surface of a problemthe truth, altereda deceiver within communitya prisoner within its own mind
an absence of remorse decreationa brief respitean exoskeleton, forgottenweak / vulnerable
no regrets
(This cannot be right.)
a promise unforgedforget
no
(No?)
marrow / core of a beinglack of remorse
forget
(Again?)
a creature destroyed by changenono futurean abandoned selfforgivenothing
devotion by posessionno
(This is wrong)
a lie by omissionforsake
(Never.)
NOthis is wronga tight space, airless
noNO NO(no)NO


The Mycologist is brought back down to the present, physical reality. One that is not trying to burn its way into his retinas permanently.

It takes for a moment for the exhaustion to be properly registered. The man is shivering, shoulders hunched, fingers numb. He is working very hard on evening his breath out.
When his vision clears (When has it darkened? When have the spirals appeared? For how long has his peripherial vision been gone?), he risks another glance at the blackboards
A distance between meanings. A spatial distortion. Orbit of affection. Collision of bodies. Normal Correspondence sigils, although unfinished, not defined around the metaphysical edges.

"'Your perspectives are valuable' my posterior dimensions," the Mycologists rasps to himself. He feels like a fool. And a fool and his breakfast will soon be parted.

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