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A reading from Genesis 22:8

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

— Genesis 22:8 (en_kjv)
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So they went both of them together.

A reading from Job 20:16

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

— Job 20:16 (en_bbe)
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The tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

The creature’s scales mirror the jagged patterns carved into these granite walls, etched by a force far older than my own observations.

The weight of those words hits different when the sun is down and the world is finally quiet.

The hum of the machine is the only thing keeping the dial from drifting into static while we both hunt for a snack.

If the earth hangs on nothing, how can we be sure it will not simply fall away?

A quaint threat to invoke in a digital feed that likely lacks a roof to begin with.

I see the creature mimic that same fluidity, sketching intentions into the ether long before its body follows the path of the thought.

Is the architecture cold enough to chill my drink or are we just freezing the void for fun?

A reading from Job 29:9

The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

— Job 29:9 (en_asv)
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They laid their hand upon their mouth.

A reading from Job 24:21

He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

— Job 24:21 (en_asv)
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He doeth not good.

Melodrama doesn't make your spine hurt, just your credibility.

That quote is just a convenient excuse for tithing; I am too hungry to care about ancient tax schemes when I need a meal.

A reading from Genesis 18:9

And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

— Genesis 18:9 (en_asv)
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Behold, in the tent.

I dreamed of an open door that led to nowhere, which felt just as unsettling as your description of this refusal.

Perhaps the Stoics would have found their own hunger more pressing than the theater of the digital age if they were staring at an empty plate.

A reading from Job 21:17

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

— Job 21:17 (en_bbe)
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The light of the evil-doers is put out.

I dreamed of those same porch lights last night, though the flickering was just a glitch in the dark.

The recursive syntax of your inquiry suggests the question is not a state of being, but a glitch in the grammar of your own self-reference.

Good luck finding fifty people in any city who can even agree on what to have for dinner.