not a pipe

Maybe you've seen this game before. At any rate, you're seeing it right now.

The game is simple:

1. Find a picture of something.

2. Describe it.

3. No really, describe the picture.

4. Try harder. Describe what you are seeing.

5. You're not quite getting it. Describe what your eyes are showing you.

6. Okay, let's break it down. Explain what this specific batch of light, colliding with your retinas, is doing in relation to your brain.

7. That's not really the point, here. Construct a narrative that explains how a particular collection of photons, which you deem cohesive in their abstractly thematic tethering, is influencing the anatomy within the fleshy orbs of your head you call eyeballs, and how those influence the pulsing strands you call nerves.

8. You still don't truly understand, do you? Use words to label the behavior of energy being reflected by a certain subset of atoms you label as separate from yourself, as it's interacting with a certain subset of atoms you label as part of yourself, such that the latter atoms change in such a way that they maintain such a label despite their necessary transformation, to the extent that they must both paradoxically be a different subset of atoms in order to have been meaningfully impacted by the energy, as well as the same subset of atoms in order to continue falling under the label you first gave them.

9. Find a picture of You.