it is easy to spend the days avoiding real decisions, living life with the tiller lashed, drifting wherever the wind blows. i have followed this strategy for many years, making choices by saying things over and over until somehow they became true, as if the words were a magic spell and had to be repeated and repeated, lest the spark they contained sputtered in an uncertain wind. the more a certain plan was repeated, the more people would know about it, and the more it would gain a glassy certainty, the harder it would be to go back on. for example,
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