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That "nothing" is a lack of something significant to you, but that doesn't mean there is nothing there. What's happening in Hamilton, New Zealand (where I am sitting) may not matter to you at all, but I can assure you, there is stuff here (it's pretty boring, but it's here). The world does not disappear when you close your eyes.
Of course, the lack of something is something itself. Even if you had an absolute vacumn in your fridge, there is something there, space. There is room to put things. There is potential in everything, even just conceptually.
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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."
Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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