Let's forget.

	let's forget that the Tenchi OAV series ends with Serio and Azusa
and the appearance of the mothers.

	let's forget that Pioneer ever had any plans on it beyond the 13
episodes (well, maybe plus the Mihoshi special, since there was no other
Tenchi universe at the time).

	in fact, let's forget altogether that there were any other Tenchis,
even if it does mean that Kiyone is somewhere stuck on the remains of some
unnamed mad scientist's lair, and Pretty Sammy is silently working at
Galaxy Police HQ.

let's forget that I have twenty-odd fanfics to plug, 3 whole webpages to
revamp, and the fact that the Entertainment Capital of UP Village is about 
to pack up and leave.

forgot all that?  what else to we have to not-assume for our suspension of
disbelief to work, and for this blurb to end?

don't look.

***

The weak link.

That is all there is to chaos.  Splendid, pyrotechnic, life-or-death, 
unpredictable chaos.  A matter of collision, overcompensation and 
weakness.

Surely, it must have occurred to anyone that the universe by itself does 
not care for anything else but itself.  It isn't unforgiving, but it is 
cold, but the cold of space is a throbbing, pulsing life compared to the 
blank slate of nothingness.

In all the possible type of unlikeliness, against the sheer will of 
predetermined statistic, all of this has happened.  All of this... and 
still there is the aura of relative comfort?

Where is the self-inflation, the self-aggrandizement there?  Where is the 
perceived illusion of grandeur?  Paranoia:  "beside the mind".

Indeed, the mind itself is an anomalous creature:  the first recursive 
artifact.  "I think therefore I am."  Order seeking order.  Light seeking 
light, doth light but light beguile.  The damnedest creature.

Recursion is one of the myriad functions of nothingness.  Such as life 
has dared to copy.

Surprised?  Zero is a completeness unto itself, closed and without bound.

It is so easy to break down the barriers between cancelling opposites, 
bordered by "common goal" or "neutral ground".  Why?  Because nothing, by 
itself, is a weak link:  it recurses, breaking unto itself, into itself.

All semantics break down into silence, as all existence breaks down into 
nothingness.  Entropy consumes all and is nothing.

And yet nothing becomes everything, destroying its own definition, 
becoming paradox.  Nothing exists because of paradox.  Anomaly begets 
normalcy.  The exceptions define the rules.

The weak link defines the matter, the breaking point outlines the 
material.  Yin for yang, tit for tat.

We have all risen to our positions of incompetence, and the universe is a 
bureaucracy, held together by red tape.

And red tape, like all matter, has a weak link.

***

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