[He stares into the water, which never fully stills from the endless inpour.
He can hardly bear the weight of his own thoughts. How is he to shoulder hers on top of them? She asserts that she can understand him, but he cannot in confidence make the same claim.
Even so, he turns her words over and over again in his mind. He considers their weight, curious and detached at once. The moon in the mirror is a reflection of the moon outside of it. This is true. If the moon outside of the mirror turns its back, so should the moon in it. Thus . . . ]
The moon in the pond . . . matches the moon in the sky.
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He can hardly bear the weight of his own thoughts. How is he to shoulder hers on top of them? She asserts that she can understand him, but he cannot in confidence make the same claim.
Even so, he turns her words over and over again in his mind. He considers their weight, curious and detached at once. The moon in the mirror is a reflection of the moon outside of it. This is true. If the moon outside of the mirror turns its back, so should the moon in it. Thus . . . ]
The moon in the pond . . . matches the moon in the sky.