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He imagined the 10,000 words gathering in a storm, like a weathermap on windy.com, barrelling over Ireland, with effects un-documented, and drenching the north and west in unforecast confusion and disruption. He wondered if 10,000 took into account the nascent polyglot that he was, 10,000 each for anglophone, francophone, his years in the FAR EAST, a smattering of Arabic, or divided between? [Yes, I am a-reading of Gravity's Rainbow:
But the Firm is patient, committed to the Long Run as They are.
Another crystal palace collapsed, the last diminishing chords of cascading glass shards being mistaken by Scientists for the dying echoes of THE BIG BANG.]
He chose one - bismillah, whatever - and felt the magic begin.