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restless pt 2

tap-tap-tap-tap
the hum of the ceiling fan gets louder and louder
tap-tap-tap-tap
the news starts SCREAMING
faster
tap-tap-tap-tap
the traffic outside BECOMES DEAFENING
faster
tap-tap-tap-tap
the everyday VOICES BECOME SHOUTS
faster
tap-tap-tap-tap
the WORLD IS SPINNING UNCONTROLLABLY
faster
tap-tap-tap-tap
THE UNIVERSE SHATTERS
STOP
silence, like a pause of the universe. Ever so quickly the wall-screen goes silent as the taping stops, the noise of the everyday people outside of his existence is quiet, the cars, the people, the world, him, even the low hum of the ceiling fan, and for the briefest of moments all things in the universe just stopped.

For just moment.

Then world comes flooding back. The cars, the voices, the noise, the wars, the newscasts, the world, the universe, all of it.
A smile slowly creeps across his face, as a vast old understanding slowly fills his mind. In the blink of an eye a vast knowledge of the universe begins to unfold.

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