Chimes: 2018 Edition (emended Blazevox book pdf)

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Now I had a sister who was half my sister, who was a baby and who I played
with. My time was divided so that I was a brother half the time, when I was with
my father and my other mother, who was not my mother. My life grew to have
many compartments and I lost the cherished sense of continuity I had had,
because things never continued. My life was splintered and I had more life then I
should have had, and my world was an overcrowded subway car. All I could do
(having chosen to be splintered) was ride the variegated waves as they broke
around me, and my half-sister was a big wave and called me Amio and there
was a big house they lived in that I was a visitor to and that was not mine. All the
same it was a big house and I had many friends that visited me at the house and
there was a stimulating festive atmosphere that did continue for a while.
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