Sorry if this is already known, but I never noticed it before. But now it's clear.

Suddenly the lyric "A time before the time we met" makes sense.

"Violet, who can't forget what happens next" - is such a strange thing to say, because it's suggesting memory about the future. But if Violet is her unborn child, the next thing that happens is birth.

Violet can sense light at the window, literally through her mother - but the "through me" metaphor is completed when the young child is shown the world by the mother. The infant learns what the world is, as it is presented by the parent.

"Did you recognize it" - that inside YOU is a cycle of hundreds of parents. Your genes represent "all the life

OTM the song is about building a perception of the world, making sense of the world. It is the process of an infant... and a songwriter. She, the infant, and she, the songwriter, are doing the same thing: finding patterns and making sense of them.

Understanding the world is similar to understanding music. The first time you hear a sequence of notes, you don't recognize it as a melody. It's just chaos to you. The second time, you know the pattern. Once, it's nothing... but Twice, a ha! That's not just a bunch of notes, that's a Melody!

The song fades in with brightness and shimmering glory. On purpose. You are born, you arrive, you begin. There's one of you to face the new day - but no, in

I had to stop and think about that, how it would look

If you're brightly backlit, against a wall, all the bright light will radiate out in a halo fashion, and will especially be reflected on the wall; but the space occupied by your body will be so dark as to make your features invisible, and there will be shadows radiating out from it.

and then i thought about what that image means in the context of the song... the person is effectively gone but their light radiates out in every direction

and i am once again devastated

THE JOURNEY SO FAR

February

I like these Rhodia notebooks I got from Jetpens. I used a fountain pen in school, I bet it would be nice to use one now. I'll get this starter set of 7 to try them.

March

Hey these are pretty cool. I like that Preppy. I should get one in blue. Then I'll be satisfied.

Cool. I should get red and green too.

I should get a nicer blue. I'll try that Ecrit de Saphir and get a converter.

What a gorgeous blue. Maybe I should get a burgundy. I'll order a syringe so I can change out the cartridge ink too.

April

Hey maybe I would like the 0.5 nib. I'll get a black one.

I'll get a blue and red one too. Then I'll be satisfied.

Oh look at these

The idea is that some stranger believes so wholeheartedly in himself and his message that he would spend enormous daily energy taking over several subreddits in a transparent attempt to self-promote. Remember that Charlotte did the same, albeit in a barnyard context. And her daily messages were, ironically, created via the "web". For the next 578 days, I will similarly post messages for what I believe to be the salvation of all the barn.

If you truly understand the Charlotte myth, the questions you must ask yourself are five-fold.

1. Using Charlotte's Web as the yardstick to measure the quality of arachnoid behavior, Charlotte is a truly heroic figure. Whom amongst you will commit to my c