*from slub to slub and angels and devils and all else that we see and that which we do not*

I can scarcely recall the time when things were tite. Everything was so close and there was no space at all, none to move around or to see anything, not a thing. Anything is not really the right word anyway, there was no thing as such, nothing, and to speak of seeing was definitely out of the question, let alone moving around. I suppose one might have circumnavigated the great totality, but only in a philosophical sense, not literally from what I could tell. For an ordinary being like me, circumnavigation was only a day-dream, an idea, not something I could actually envision or grasp in concrete terms.

The consistency of things back then was uneven, unmixed, or bumpy. But because of the absence of space and the consequent perspective that might have come with space, a concept nonsensical to me at that time, the smallness rendered the texture of things smooth in effect. The regularity of the slub manifested a oneness, a special type of evenness, a certain slubby in toto, This was no doubt due at least in part to the smallness of everything and most definitely due to the titeness.

Now things are very different. One can plainly see where things are even and where they are slubby. Once things started moving apart… no, not really moving, more that they were no longer close, that space appeared rather spontaneously in all spots at once, revealing dips and valleys and peaks and all the rest. We all had sudden perspective and, abruptly, this changed everything. I can no longer remember the feeling of what it was like when things were tite. In fact, I no easier remember times before the change than I could have imagined circumnavigating the great totality in the times of the titeness. I can only sort of conjure the spirit of what it may have been like back then, but I cannot know for sure, I just know that now I have perspective and a sense of space and that things are definitely slubby and not even.

Oddly, there are no new things, just the same old ones appearing differently. This is also only a philosophical truth as nobody really knows what things were there before let alone has a complete inventory of the things here now. Some spots still seem even and possess a to one degree or another the titeness of their progenitor while others are not so even, while others still are becoming more or less even in the extreme. I think right now is when things are most interesting but I probably thought that before and will likely think it again when things are entirely even again. Surely titeness will end in titeness even if the first is much smaller than the last. But who is to say what is small and what is large except during the period of transition from one to the other. Such is beyond my mind. I do assume that things will become regular and smooth in the end, it seems entirely unavoidable. At that time, maybe they will be even but appear slubby on account of their extreme evenness in a very loose, open space, the opposite of when things were tite. But then again perhaps they will simply appear even in spite of their intensely uneven slub. I wouldn’t dare say for sure, I will just continue on and see.

- Slubby Brothers

when everything was so tite it was loose