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+"Under different circumstances," she said, "I think I might enjoy this."
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+Her clothes—a smart red jacket worn over a loose-fitting white shirt and a
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+plaited burgundy skirt with a difficult-to-understand sort of hem—were
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+now twisting and curling around her body in strange patterns, and it wasn't
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+quite clear to either of us whether what had happened to them. They
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+might have been conscious, attempting to communicate complex ideas to
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+us in a geometric, spatiotemporal language, layering meaning upon meaning
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+like a semiotic braid of fine silk, stitching together morphemes and
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+embroidering lexemes. Or they might just have gotten cut somehow. It was
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+kind of windy, really, now that I paid attention to it.
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+"Look," I said. "I came here to rent a movie, and I'm gonna rent a
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+movie, dammit. Do you want to rent a movie?"
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+"I—"
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+
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+"—wanttorentamovie got it we'll rent a movie." I turned back to the
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+rack, one of about seven scattered around the otherwise empty street.
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+A bored video rental clerk nearby was tapping his foot and idly
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+adjusting his sunglasses as we browsed. "What movie. We should pick
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+one."
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+"I didn't say that thing you just said, you did," she said, "but I
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+really want an action movie."
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+"What do the clothes want?" I asked.
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+"I don't know," she said. "I'm beginning to suspect that they exist at
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+least partly between dimensions, and this is merely reflective of a
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+state of oscillation between the laws of physics of our universe and
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+the alien and unknowable physics of a dimension to which we barely
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+have access, barely _can_ have access, to the degree that it's an
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+ontological impossibility to describe of existing there at all."
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+"Fair enough," I said, and grabbed the box of an 80's action classic,
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+the plastic tape inside rattling as I grabbed it from the rack.
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+It later turned out the clothes wanted a romcom, but we really
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+had no idea of knowing that at the time.
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Getty Ritter