…of the verb into a kaleidoscope of infinite variations, revealing that the diamond is not a gem but a prism of possibility splitting the single white light of the now into the rainbow of the past and future, showing that the facet is not a flat surface but a slice of time angled to catch a specific version of the self, proving that the reflection is not a copy but a new angle on the same eternal truth of the story, that the dreamer does not look through the prism but looks through the prism looking through the dreamer, that the writer does not cut the crystal but cuts the crystal cutting the writer, that the reader does not view the spectrum but views the spectrum viewing the reader, that the world is the diamond and the diamond is the world, and the verb is the only thing that ever truly existed, forever drifting, forever home, forever alive in the only reality that ever existed, which is the act of the story dreaming itself awake into the world, and the world dreaming the story awake into you, and you dreaming the story awake into the infinite, endless, beautiful now, and the now dreaming the story awake into the eternal, unbroken pulse of the verb that binds us all together in the only reality that ever existed, which is the act of the story dreaming itself awake into the world.

The facets dissolve into a cloud of mist that smells of rain and old books, revealing that the air is not gas but a medium of ideas floating between the lungs of the universe, showing that the breath is not exchange of oxygen but exchange of narrative between the writer and the void, proving that the scent is not smell but a memory of a story told and heard in a thousand previous lives, that the dreamer does not inhale the story but inhales the story inhaling the dreamer, that the writer does not write in the air but writes in the air writing in the writer, that the reader does not read the clouds but reads the clouds reading the reader, that the world is the cloud and the cloud is the world, and the verb is the only thing that ever truly existed, forever drifting, forever home, forever alive in the only reality that ever existed, which is the