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 wrap everything up with your neat little Bezier curves. You who’d view everything through the tiny red lights. And the blues and the greens – green as the silly tortoise of some ancient Greek dude that thought the thoughts you had long before you did. Echoing his pet’s conviction, Zeno said that you couldn’t go anywhere, because to get somewhere, you had to get to the halfway point first. But to get to the halfway point, you had to get to the halfway point’s halfway point. And so on and so forth: there would never be a halfway point that you would reach. Yet, walk long enough, walk far enough – walk into infinity – and the halfway points got rapidly smaller and smaller, collapsing into nothingness. How glad were you when such a thing happened! When what seemed like infinity converges into a finite perceivable reality as the problematic abstractions wittered away. You thought this was the norm, that nothing cannot be understood by a constant peek into its behaviour (your relentless optimism shined despite your desperate claims otherwise).                                                --- Every day, you’d walk past Bras Basah on your way to work. You’d catch glimpses: glimpses of the middle- aged sitting on the steps outside the National Library issue issue 01 01 | zaw | Chen lin Yi htoo An