once pristine: 020407;35
series: meta;11

fwd to meta;12
back to meta;10

several versions of the same narrative : the final version will be irreconcilable to the first, but: the original narrative is still present, living obscured underneath those layers of process that have the benefit of time; fermentation, which has both the implication of rotting and transforming into something different, more potent : there is no substitute for time in that situation, contemplation is not inactivity