A Temporary Civilization
Where we learn that the instability of a relationship can be mathematically proven.
This essay is being released episodically, two pages at a time.
There will be 10 pages: a title page followed by 9 pages of story.
This essay is in the form of an erasure prose. An erasure is when words are erased (or crossed-out, or blacked-out, or cut out, etc) from a preexisting text so that the words that remain on the page now tell a new story. The preexisting source for this erasure is an academic math paper. (Richardson, 2026)*
My personal spin on creating erasures is to not only erase the words I do not want to use, but to also jazz up the visual of (what may now be) a rather barren page with other types of preexisting materials; primarily washi tape and/or origami paper.
If you'd like to see what the original un-erasure'd page looks like, in comparison, tap on the associated asterisk.
Title
A Temporary Civilization *
pg 1
a period of no trust is untenable between lexi and al. this manifests as a structural alteration, a discourse to be managed, a rising loss of resilience. *
pg 2
macroscopic physical contours (re)present a transformation in her behavior as his pre-transformation state becomes imperfect but remains illuminating. *
a story to be continued...
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