Try not to become this distinguished being, contemplating Fall and its consequences. You can’t do it, can you? I can’t and it’s only a mediated reflection. For when Freddy said “The abyss stares back” what do you think he meant other than simply, this. Every moment of every day, seen or unseen, we stare back:

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