the psychology of a clockwork messenger

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a mechanized heart never misses a beat. a clockwork messenger, fated to drag chaos behind him in his wake. (…harbinger of chaos, why do you run from what you scatter?…) __________________ the envoy’s words are all that cross your mind; his sure determination, his self-imposed importance, in all their cold intensity, no different from when you stood before him tangibly, only a mere object of kismet in his eyes. . . . “think of a word, darling. any word, really. the word itself is of no concern to me. just something sizable enough, that it would fall under the category of ‘important’. i’ll use ‘onward’. now imagine that word tenfold. onward, onward, onward, onward, onward, onward, onward, onward, onward, onward. is that a mouthful? i’d think so. imagine that same word hundredfold now. i won’t try to say every ‘onward’. that would be time-consuming, and, quite frankly, pointless. now, imagine it thousandfold. millionfold. billionfold, even. don’t even try to say all of it. you’d die before you reach the end. us felines have too short of a lifespan for that. is that word starting to get repetitive? boring? pointless? i thought so, too, darling. are you starting to see why i chose a sizable word for my demonstration? every onward in a billion onwards is every stride you take for want of meaning. and every stride you take is a stride on shifting sands. no matter how many strides, leaps, bounds you take, you remain in the same spot. everything you do is inevitable. you best stop worrying yourself sick over what is decided long before your arrival. i would not lie to you, darling. i’m not the lying kind. but do not take this harshly when i say—the two of us barely mean a thing. merely shackled by a vague pattern.” __________________ sitting in a marsh, forgotten, words muddled over and redacted from the simmering waters, is a lengthy paper—none of which you can read, of course, given your species. (…what you don’t know is that it may be the key to unlocking things far greater than yourself...) (…will you pursue that knowledge?) https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/869219/?page=1#post-9007931