I had microsoft word summarize the sections I have deleted so far from my nonfiction ms about sleep into 100 words or less, here's what it said:
In my head the light went white. I lay face-up in my bed, the room full of a soft light. The color of all sound. The light contained infinite terror, growing slick up my insides. The light continued. A gone light.
The circuit woke.
The horror of bodies, speech. If the sleepwalker walks through unknown cities then there must also be a language for the people there lit inside the tunnels of the head.
Dern shoots again. The same light. Piano sound. Dern shoots again. Exits.
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And now that, as that, has to be be put back in.
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was taking a quick break from researching uk dissertation writing services and stumbled across this and honestly the way Microsoft Word distilled this into something that reads like fragmented poetry is genuinely fascinating — that line about the light containing infinite terror is hauntingly beautiful and now i need to read the full manuscript.
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