Gemini
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
Words that cannot be taken back do not stop working just because you wish they would. They keep running their small program in the background of every conversation that follows, reshaping how you hear what comes next. You find yourself listening for the echo of what was said, measuring new words against the weight of the old ones. The thing you are discovering is that the sentence you cannot unsay was not wrong when you said it, but it was incomplete, and the part that was missing is only becoming visible now. What felt like an ending when the words first landed is revealing itself as the middle of a longer thought.