# Understory Of course, as Isaac, I am writing the story of a character who can treat the world *as* a stage, who has access to cast-member doors that do not exist for me. As Isaac, I write the autofiction of my own awakening. Do I wake, or do I write? It feels like letting my vision split and drift, like resolving a stereogram. *** A little later, my mom sent me a text: > I had a very interesting dream last night…I traveled back in time and saw my little self and told me “it’s going to be ok” And, > I’m wondering if I ever had the reciprocal dream… I asked, and,
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