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I’m sinking I’m sinking I’m dropping down I’m going down flowing floating down down – is there any bottom? is there anything that can be a bottom? a rule with no exceptions at last a rule I can rely on I put my foot on it and I’m sure this is hard unsinkable piece of land of ground I can rebound from and I will begin slowly painstakingly move upward toward a surface if I have enough force if I’m strong enough if there is enough air or exceptions with no rules just exceptions if it was so then each exception would be a rule this situation wouldn’t differ much from the rule with no exception quantity would be the only difference there would be many no-exception-rules a lot of plenty of rules with no exceptions and many such rules would give many chances to rebound a lot of rules wouldn’t be a marsh would be a different marsh would be rather a dune quicksand I would invent rules-and-exceptions by myself ruceptions and exles and I would sink in them and take myself out pulling my hair I would fly in ruceptions and exles like in a cloud of dust and I would ponder: is there any surface here? this would be magic: a bottom which is a surface – a space with no bottom and no surface
