It crept up on me, that’s how I remember it; rather like my ex-wife’s new husband (for whom the neutral ‘it’ is, as it happens, a sadly appropriate label). It’s not that you weren’t vaguely aware of its presence, rather that it was never anything more than one of many things happening at that time. I lie in moderation: you were in fact well aware that it had the potential to be a ‘big thing’ – you simply never found the time to sit down and worry about it. You thought that it was ‘out of your sphere’: out of your orbit. You were Pluto and it was one of Jupiter’s moons. Or at least you thought you were Pluto. Perhaps you were Jupiter all along. I don’t know. You were always aware of it, but still it crept up on you. Like old age, like death, like your ex-wife’s new husband. The most unsurprising surprise you ever had. Funny that.
By this time, it had arrived. Arrived for good. One of those arrivals you can no longer ignore. You were forced into thought. What is this really? What does it mean? Is it a good thing? Should I have been paying attention earlier?
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