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Anne knew that if there were debt it could never be paid in full
    to the Original Anne
    the other Anne was enjoying her fame and wealth
    she scattered gold coins in the paths of her followers
    she would stop and turn then toss the coins
    and the followers no longer noticed Original Anne
    coins dropped from the other Anne with a genuine-sounding sound
    a powerful sound of empty value
    money would replace Original Anne
    …sculpting of Jupiter’s gossamer rings by its shadow…this was another reach in her investigation of the nature of gossamer, light-years away…
    …as dust near Jupiter is produced when interplanetary impactors collide energetically with small inner moons and dust is organized into a main ring, an inner halo, and two fainter and more distant double gossamer rings…
    …as when dust grains alternately charge and discharge when traversing shadow boundaries, allowing the planet’s powerful magnetic light to excite orbital eccentricities and inclinations as well…
    …as when dust in the gossamer rings originates essentially in the same way as that in the main ring and halo. Its sources are the inner Jovian moons Amalthea and Thebe. High-velocity impacts by projectiles coming from outside the Jovian system eject dust particles from their surfaces. These particles initially retain the same orbits as their moons but then gradually spiral inward by Poynting-Robertson drag. The thickness of the gossamer rings is determined by vertical excursions of the moons due to their nonzero orbital inclination…
    Observable properties of the rings: rectangular cross section, decreases of thickness in the direction of Jupiter, and brightening of the top and bottom edges of the rings.
    Some properties go unexplained. Like the Thebe extension, which may be due to unseen bodies outside Thebe’s orbit, and structures visible in theback-scattered light. One possible explanation of the Thebe extension is the influence of the electromagnetic forces from the Jovian magnetosphere.
    There could be two particle populations in the gossamer rings; one slowly drifts in the direction of Jupiter while another remains near a source moon trapped in 1:1 resonance with it.
    …“back-scattered light” is the light scattered at an angle close to 180° relative to solar light…
    Observable properties of the effect of gossamer rings on consciousness
    moving in parallel circles and may never embrace.
    appear, dissolve, canceled
    a model for musing
    in the treasure trove of Mnemsyne
    a movie of your spiraling memory
    After the taking of the castle turning it to a prison through antics of deception and dream there had been some change in their selves, in the twinned psychological weather. There had been a shift whether
she she
would respond violently or
she she
would be serene or metabolically charged to move about, and we saw them, moving about with a kind of joy.…No, begin again.…
    Had you heard why did you hear and what did you hear or what did they let you hear? That one Decider was a creationist, that another was a misogynist.
    That the Deciders may imprison one of you. I was already that one.
    There was something there. The twins in our lives. A twitter about the doubles in our lives and imprisonment. And using one to conquer the other and steal her magic.
    They might confuse themselves
in the Decider Device of Double Annes
And the care to the students that would not be given And the care to Archive that would not be proffered
    Breath quickens, arms flail…there were warnings. How
she she
would appear suddenly at mealtime in a wrench of remorse, mumbling about aviary sightings and how a wing might be a portent of doom if slightly askew. And
she she
would also be fine looking up at the stars from the fortress tower. Portents from light-years away.
    Arrived and not quite arrived.
    Auguries of mixed-message victory.
    Or studying birds and the entrails of birds.
    And the reading of the entrails was such that Original Anne would survive