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the waves never actually stop

The turn. The same behaviour, seen from the side it makes sense from.

23 AUG 20264 spoken lines58 wordsThe turn

This one says 58 words over 4 spoken lines, against a corpus that runs 22 to 96.

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you keep waiting for the water to go still.

02it never does. the waves just keep arriving, one after another.

03your brain calls that a problem, because it thinks calm means nothing moving.

04but the water is calm right now, and it hasn't stopped once — calm is what it looks like when nothing is fighting the movement.

the water is calm and it never once stopped moving