Thread by @Meaningness

.@lumenphosphor was telling a wild story over dinner about friends of hers who put on a play based on a wild story about someone nearly burning down a house

and partway through I started nodding and saying Yah, yah,

when she got to the explosion, I pulled down my shirt

@lumenphosphor “I still have the scars on my chest,” I said

and gradually it dawned on her that she was telling me the a story about a play based on a diary entry about me

FRAME COLLAPSE: when you realize that the world in the story is THIS world and it is sitting across the table from you

@lumenphosphor Now you are reading a story I am telling you about @lumenphosphor telling me a story about a play about a diary entry about me….

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@lumenphosphor “It is no shame to be undone by recursion, the first time,” the old man said. buddhism-for-vampires.com/sleeping-with-…

"The Tale the Vampire Told," an episode of my serial comic tantric romance novel, attempts to induce the same mind-stopping recursive frame collapse. If it works, your sense-making breaks down for a moment, and you find yourself in vast open possibility buddhism-for-vampires.com/the-tale-the-v…

"Pops and the Shudder" explains the frame collapse in a metablog post about "The Tale the Vampire Told." (Contains spoilers; read The Tale first.) buddhism-for-vampires.com/pops-and-the-s…