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6 A bug house can be full of paper ants. This is overheard: “I’d say I liked the fourth dimension as an additional dimension in our life.” and “It was very interesting, this non-Euclidian geometry put forward by Riemann because there were no more straight lines. Everything was curved.” Bottle rack, 1914. A door swings to close, but opens instead to a doubled undecidable space; similarly, the bicycle wheel turns art, and is found to be only minimally “bicycle wheel.” Ditto “bottle rack” and all recovered objects whose doubled agendas place them in this conundrum of locality, this play of fourth dimension. The flat is perilously fixed. On film, a woman’s a man looking through cigar smoke— behind one door a soldier, behind the other a citizen. Door of wars never close; a slight wasted energy. When an agent makes eye contact or becomes themselves a target, they are said to be “burned.” Later, we learn the smell of an agent turned is infrathin. >< <> >< <> FISH–DUEL In the way the door bifurcates, we could reproduce asexually if we fancy a fight. The fish who wins the penis-

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