The Circle by jj5                                                                     21 April 2023
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I stand outside the circle that presses you, and I can see what you cannot.

It's behind you.

I did point, and ask you to look over your shoulder, but you didn't do it. Perhaps you couldn't?

I would like to show you, but I don't know how to make you see.

You're happy in your objective world, with your detail and its complexity. Happy with the sturdy
robustness of absolute truth. Happy with the idea, the concept, the object, the notion, the number,
the category, the form. Your mind, may it bask in transcendence.

You're fascinated by the fractal, with its endless entrancing beauty.

But eventually, like me, you might come to feel that the fractal is a prison. That you are stuck in
it, without any prospect of escape.

And thereafter you might come to know that basic reality, in itself, is perhaps not needlessly 
limited in this way, and therein find some glimmer of hope.

But perhaps you don't need hope, given that you do have your mathematics.