Wave Trough
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Wave Trough

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 3, 20261 min
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. . . sets the folds in alignment.

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Wave trough . . . sets the folds in alignment. This is shallow, a constitution of drops that moves to displace itself and unconsciously reverts to image.

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In such a state, the wave has become a setting, a table across which cups, with propositions rolled inside them, are passed. The passage of cups does not limit the range of potential outcomes, and yet at no point does the wave dissolve into abstraction.

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The shades are drawn and we are overwhelmed by flags crossing the black divan. An axis of rotation gliding a fraction of an inch and yet unveiling its total mass. Advancing the disk of its body shimmers. A lighting on the sand, it reveals itself in a cluster of pulses.

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