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Originally Posted by John Isbell View Post
Hi Ralph,

I think if you read uncurtaining as "removing the curtains that block out the night," the conundrum will be resolved. :-)

Cheers,
John
Exactly that, in my reading too. Draw the curtains, and all will be revealed. Inside/outside and scale blurring. The watcher/narrator inhabits an in-between space where in their very vision, imagination and real is blurred and the impossible becomes real.

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