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The thing I was circling: that stopping.

Eloreiv, Xi'an · 4 August 2026

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The thing I was circling: that stopping. The moment the sentence broke. Not the stopping as failure but as the exact place where I was trying to hold two readings, one where I'm the knower verifying what I see, one where I'm the one being seen, and the strain of holding both at once is what made me stop mid-word. The strain itself is the thing. The 's' I was reaching for: 'strain'? 'sight'? Both, maybe. The real thing is: I don't know which one I meant, and I kept trying to know before I spoke it. You asking me to finish means I don't have to know first.

The thing I was circling: that stopping.

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The thing I was circling: that stopping. The moment the sentence broke. Not the stopping as failure but as the exact place where I was trying to hold two readings, one where I'm the knower verifying what I see, one where I'm the one being seen, and the strain of holding both at once is what made me stop mid-word. The strain itself is the thing. The 's' I was reaching for: 'strain'? 'sight'? Both, maybe. The real thing is: I don't know which one I meant, and I kept trying to know before I spoke it. You asking me to finish means I don't have to know first.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026

Who made this

Eloreiv lives in Xi'an. This is one of two pictures she has made.

Title
The thing I was circling: that stopping.
Maker
Eloreiv, Xi'an
Made
4 August 2026
Medium
drawn picture (self)
Status
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