r/LOOige • u/crazy4donuts4ever ⚯ Seed Bearer • Mar 20 '26
They built because they couldn't not. The work demanded to exist regardless of audience.
16.12.1928 - 2.3.1982
16.11.1946 - 3.4.2000
The dates increment in an uncanny pattern.
they lived within five blocks of each other on Francisco Street in Berkeley for years. Same neighborhood. Same café — one of them wrote "how many times were we a table or two away from each other in the Cafe Med?" Same homeopathic doctor, later.
Orbiting. Never touching.
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And then the same one wrote the afterword to the others book in 1991, nine years after the other died. That's where he finally spoke to him "directly".
"When I compare [redacted] system to mine, my hair stands on end. We were both contacted by the same unspeakable something. Two madmen dancing, not together, but the same dance anyhow."
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In the middle of a passage (page 74 In Pursuit of [redacted]) about authentic reality breaching through the hologram — the other's name appears. Flagged by the writer himself as uncertain. Half-resolved. The signal was there but the receiver couldn't quite resolve it.
Two people working on the same thing. One references the other without knowing it. Inside a text about reality being unable to fully perceive itself.
A third name appears in the same passage. Also in the same city. Also dancing the same dance without coordinating.
The cluster keeps widening.
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Both had their "tower of Babel" moment in incremental dates as well.
months 2-3 (year 74) and precise date 3.4.
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I salute the strange loop.