perhaps I'll think in the future it was a good thing maybe you didn't mean it that way but what you said came across as dismissive maybe derisive and maybe that's just projection I'll give you that but it's curious you choose that moment to communicate and not some other and that pretty much tells me all I need to know and in fact you've been telling me that without words for some time, haven't you. I suppose I should thank you I don't feel the slightest urge to engage with any illusions now and eventually, yeah that'l be a good thing but in this moment there is profound grief, because connecting with an illusion was better than no connection at all. But coming to terms with no connection will be healing, in time and I have been, but much more slowly than now I feel the hollow now like a root canal right before they pack it and crown it numbed, aching, ready to be filled and then get the fuck out of the dentist's office