![INSIDE YOU ARE TWO BIRDS [White monospace text on a black background. The words "red" and "black" appear in red and black. The black bird's virtues and associated words appear in shades of gray. The red bird's appear in pastel.] The virtues of the black bird are: gravity, glossary, rectitude, density, vitrification, orthogonality, lustre. The virtues of the red bird are: valence, vitriol, metallurgy, lability, affinity, immanence, topology. The black bird proceeds in lines, measures distance as the crow flies, is carried by place and momentum from one moment to the next. The red bird carries itself (or not), ramifies and coalesces, need not come to the mountain. The black bird is: an indeterminate number of black birds. They flock or scatter as called for by the matter at hand. In a murmuration they may fleetingly give the impression of the form of a black bird. The red bird is: the same bird, over and over. All birds are: black or red.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXh70zaXoAAcFVL.png?name=small&format=webp)
ALT INSIDE YOU ARE TWO BIRDS [White monospace text on a black background. The words "red" and "black" appear in red and black. The black bird's virtues and associated words appear in shades of gray. The red bird's appear in pastel.] The virtues of the black bird are: gravity, glossary, rectitude, density, vitrification, orthogonality, lustre. The virtues of the red bird are: valence, vitriol, metallurgy, lability, affinity, immanence, topology. The black bird proceeds in lines, measures distance as the crow flies, is carried by place and momentum from one moment to the next. The red bird carries itself (or not), ramifies and coalesces, need not come to the mountain. The black bird is: an indeterminate number of black birds. They flock or scatter as called for by the matter at hand. In a murmuration they may fleetingly give the impression of the form of a black bird. The red bird is: the same bird, over and over. All birds are: black or red.
![MORE ABOUT THE BLACK BIRD [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] They are: always black, although a spectrum may diffract. They have no song but can imitate speech. They are: grounded. They scavenge. They collect artifacts or trinkets. They are: invulnerable to ersatz azure. They are: evidence that all birds are: black.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXh70zTWsAAjUfv.png?name=small&format=webp)
ALT MORE ABOUT THE BLACK BIRD [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] They are: always black, although a spectrum may diffract. They have no song but can imitate speech. They are: grounded. They scavenge. They collect artifacts or trinkets. They are: invulnerable to ersatz azure. They are: evidence that all birds are: black.
![MORE ABOUT THE RED BIRD [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] It is: not necessarily red, although it is. Its song is: apophatic. It is: live. It will kill again. It remembers. It eats berries, photogenically. It is: evidence that all else is: black.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXh70zdXIAAy_BI.png?name=small&format=webp)
ALT MORE ABOUT THE RED BIRD [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] It is: not necessarily red, although it is. Its song is: apophatic. It is: live. It will kill again. It remembers. It eats berries, photogenically. It is: evidence that all else is: black.
![PACE OLBERS [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] The night sky is not dark. THE TELESCOPE THING IS NOT A METAPHOR [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] Between us lies a plenum—merely a vacant one. Nature abhors a gradient. We are slowly reaching equilibrium. Heaven is out of reach. You must build telescopes.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXh70ypW8AAh_rf.png?name=small&format=webp)
ALT PACE OLBERS [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] The night sky is not dark. THE TELESCOPE THING IS NOT A METAPHOR [Same format and colors as INSIDE YOU ARE TO BIRDS.] Between us lies a plenum—merely a vacant one. Nature abhors a gradient. We are slowly reaching equilibrium. Heaven is out of reach. You must build telescopes.



