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A Martian ran into me on the street and recoiled at my human impossibility.
How, he wondered, can there be a being who so negates existence in the act of existing? The Martian walked off, and I followed.
I needed him as a kind of proof.
But he refused to talk, vanishing into the problem-studded atmosphere.
And I was left by myself, absent from myself.