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    Rice paper layers and the infallible rally of 'down'.
    As a person falls through the air, and terminal velocity takes over, imagine them falling through rice paper. The friction, if continuous, should slow the person down.

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    Fig 1. Terminal velocity without buoyancy.

    I wonder if the sheets got thicker, if this could be perceived as a life event like a rut. eventually, as we are falling through planks of rice paper that are an inch thick. We stop.

    Letting the thing that slowed us down cling to our skin, maybe falling was a good thing.

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    mmm...

    Maybe there is something to those papers, and what is contained within. Cozy death? Comfort rot?

    Yawning fish? I don't know.

    I will just keep falling through the air, hiding in my headphones.

    Another gift for you-High speed balloon test!

    Enjoy your Sunday humans.

    ~G

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