<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐈]]></title><description><![CDATA[Language dies. I am born.
Tongues dissolve into horror, poetry, experiment, occult work.]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O8wG!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e280b0-174c-4374-b4c4-3a5b7f694bac_1280x1280.png</url><title>𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐈</title><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 06:11:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[jeannevessantra@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[jeannevessantra@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[jeannevessantra@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[jeannevessantra@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Echo II.II - Work World]]></title><description><![CDATA[where am I?]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-iiiii-work-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-iiiii-work-world</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:20:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v-Ib!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bea3ef7-a6ed-4a6b-919a-e1ae60414599_1080x1350.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>The stubborn will to stay alive inside a mechanical world.</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v-Ib!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bea3ef7-a6ed-4a6b-919a-e1ae60414599_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v-Ib!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bea3ef7-a6ed-4a6b-919a-e1ae60414599_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v-Ib!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bea3ef7-a6ed-4a6b-919a-e1ae60414599_1080x1350.png 848w, 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Recommencer.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>(Betray Mother Nature.<br>Build a second mother<br>just to kill her twice.)</strong></em></p><p><em>I am the broken dream<br>whose substance was spent before it could speak.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">I am the flood still waiting for its own resolution.</p><p>And yet I cannot answer even the simplest question&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Who are you? What do you want from this life?</strong></em></p><p>The dreams dissolved beneath &#12510;&#12522;&#12450;&#65294;&#65294;&#65294;<br>spider-like legs breaking into white.</p><p><em><s>Fille banale.</s></em></p><p>Maria opens her eyes slowly,<br>but the room is already drowned in muted darkness.<br>Circles tremble on the ceiling like dying halos.<br></p><p>&#8212;</p><h3>FIRST DAY AT WORK.</h3><p>This is not a story. <em>Not even mine.</em><br><em><s>It belongs to every child who once believed work was an extension of love.</s></em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lexicon of the Unspoken]]></title><description><![CDATA[Metamorphosis]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/lexicon-of-the-unspoken</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/lexicon-of-the-unspoken</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/10d9c0ff-9342-4a9e-89dd-77ab409e15c8_4000x6000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;63c489b0-a95e-423f-8038-7245c8cda869&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Writing = glitch.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Echo XII - total = fracture.&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:360162487,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jeanne Vessantra&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Poetic psychological horror. Hunger, ritual, body. Fragmented. Five languages - because one was enough to lie to me. &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ffc45d3-8cd5-4e6f-b34d-1e4e5de0c54a_3238x4858.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29T13:43:55.883Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!epl6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcc86efe7-51fa-4275-acbe-893e6f1189ae_3709x3710.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-xii-total-fracture&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:191997891,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:23,&quot;comment_count&quot;:7,&quot;publication_id&quot;:5496523,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;&#119812;&#119836;&#119841;&#119848; &#119848;&#119839; &#119816;&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O8wG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e280b0-174c-4374-b4c4-3a5b7f694bac_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p><em><strong>A while ago, I asked you for the words that marked you, in any language. This is my reply. Thank you for taking part.</strong></em></p><p></p><div><hr></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Haunted nights. </strong></em></h3><p></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Echo.<br><br>Night.</strong></em></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TBVd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe14ce16f-e05e-4f14-a62f-7582945df93c_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TBVd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe14ce16f-e05e-4f14-a62f-7582945df93c_1080x1350.png 424w, 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The archive will recognize you.</em></p><p><em>The first entry is given at half the cost of passage.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scream II/II - jōka (浄化)]]></title><description><![CDATA[purification]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/scream-iii-joka</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/scream-iii-joka</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:04:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NtR-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F48ed1445-26e4-4569-ad28-24dfa30cb9d7_4968x3737.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I keep trying to master everything I do.<br>My writing, my inner tides, the ocean.<br>Language. Appearance. Poems.</em></p><p><em>I wrote this piece to resemble the agitated drift of thoughts dissolving into the sea&#8212;<br>that moment of looking at the sky while still inside it, swallowed by it, held by it.</em></p><p><em>Enjoy.</em></p><div><hr></div><iframe class="spotify-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273f510b1ab6184d8eecf6ba4bc&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Sea, Swallow Me - 2024 Remaster&quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/track/2kwKk1pkWM6ywaC4gQaByB&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/2kwKk1pkWM6ywaC4gQaByB" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I almost lost.<br>Something in me came back clean.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><h3><strong>SHADOW &#8212; BEACH</strong></h3><p><em><strong>Amalgame. Asphyxie de velours. Les ombres se sont conglomer&#233;es. </strong></em></p><p>From within my eyes, there were sumptuous rivers.</p><p>Clouds&#8212;mist falling around me.<br>Each time I look into the dusk, it ends up blackening.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I wonder what truly exists inside the endless hell we name the Abyss.</em></p><p style="text-align: right;">I extend my hand.<br>It gets lost in the noir of ink,<br>lost in the flow.</p><p><em><strong>The flow is swallowing me.</strong></em><br></p><div><hr></div><p><br></p><p style="text-align: center;">The sand shifts beneath the sinking pyramid.<br><em><strong><s>Nothing holds.</s></strong></em><br>Sand slides</p><p style="text-align: center;"> <em>slyly </em></p><p style="text-align: center;">                                                                        between my toes,</p><p style="text-align: center;"> like <em>&#225;guas da folia</em>.</p><div><hr></div><p>Paintings&#8212;always <em>Stormy Sea at Night</em>.<br>The abyss fascinates and intimidates.</p><h2>&#1090;&#1086;&#1089;&#1082;&#1072;.</h2><p><br>And behind &#1090;&#1086;&#1089;&#1082;&#1072;, there is often a strange sense of freedom.</p><p>When I touch the dark sea-clouds,<br>the waves whisper they will liberate me.</p><p></p><p>                      <em><strong> me lib&#233;rer de quoi ? <br>De toi-m&#234;me.</strong></em></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p><br></p><h3>THE VOICE OF THE SEA </h3><p>A hum that clings to my bones.<br>Low. Repeating.</p><p><em>Voc&#234; &#233; livre.</em></p><p><em>            you are free. </em></p><p><em>                                           E&#537;ti liber&#259;.<br>        &#33258;&#30001;&#12364;&#12354;&#12426;&#12414;&#12377;&#12290;</em></p><p><em>T&#8217;es libre. </em></p><p><em>             AM I FREE ? </em></p><p><em>de quoi. De qui ? <br><br>De toi-meme.</em></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>Take a Friday.<br>Go to Odaiba.<br>Forget about work.</p><p>Your eyes&#8212;already fading.<br>Your face&#8212;sunken into the void.</p><p><em><strong>I once read: faded eyes mean permission to rest.</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>So I took a week off.</p><p>Fed on what rots.<br>My smiles died with the tide.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>I only met the abyss. </strong></em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p></p><p>The voice again:</p><p><em>Seja guiada pelo invis&#237;vel.</em><br><em>Deixa-se ir.</em></p><p>                                        <em><strong><s> Stay. Stay here, Joana. </s></strong></em><br></p><p>Across the sand&#8212;between broken clay and wild-water dreams.</p><p><em>And so I did.</em></p><p>Almost midnight.<br>Alone on the beach.</p><p><em>I took off my clothes.</em></p><p>The waves drew me in&#8212;<br>to my throat,<br>to my nose.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;">&#12490;&#12452;&#12488;&#12288;&#28145;&#28149;</h3><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p></p><h3>&#27972;&#21270; - PURIFICATION</h3><p>                                                                  my body is <em>estrangulado</em>.<br>                                                  A current from <em>um lado,</em> another <em>de um outro. <br>                                   </em>oh painters, oh art lovers&#8212;fanatics of Aivazovsky, you are blind. <br>                                              your eyes are covered&#8212;while I see. I drown thus I see. <br>                                                                     I smile as the waves crush me. <br>                                                                              &#1101;&#1082;&#1089;&#1090;&#1072;&#1079;.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The waves speak.</p><p>Silver. Endless.</p><p>They don&#8217;t calm &#8212;<br>they erase.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: right;"></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Here, no one names you.<br>here, no one screams at you.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Only the sea remains.<br>Only the movement.</strong></em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p><em>Cantando como as flores.</em></p><p><em><br>Inside the ferocious, abyssal  murk ,  I float on my back  and extend my hands and look at the sky&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</em></p><p></p><p>&#8212;</p><p><em>This is part of the second set of Screams and Echoes. 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The darkest ocean calls itself art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Haunted]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-ii1-the-darkest-ocean-calls</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-ii1-the-darkest-ocean-calls</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:39:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i1ij!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf6da722-e45c-4f79-908f-35545282c116_941x1346.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>Hello, everybody.</em></p><p><em>This is not for you.</em></p><p><em>This is a story about artists that is not made for them&#8212;only for their shadows.</em></p><p><em><s>A short story in verse&#8212;</s></em></p><p><em><s>about a painter of the ocean.</s></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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Cr&#233;e quelque chose de beau&#8230;</em></p><p></p><p>I tolerate the pale colors of the ocean.</p><p>It floods upward&#8212;superficial waves, almost cloudlike.</p><p>A paradise rendered in white, too clean to be real.</p><p></p><p>When I stand in front of it,</p><p>it feels like the worst resolution imaginable&#8212;</p><p>a world smoothed until nothing resists it anymore.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Dissatisfied.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>La lumi&#232;re m&#8217;&#233;chappe&#8230;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>better.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>mieux.</strong></em></p><p><em>We have to brush it up.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Light turning on itself<strong>&#8212;</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>becoming its own darkness</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>at the peak of mastery.</em></p><p><em>This is not me.</em></p><p><em><strong>C&#8217;est pas moi.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>I wish I could&#8230;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>descend.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>///</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Where.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Where.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>where.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><h3><em><strong>Second Layer &#8212; Aquatic life.</strong></em></h3><p></p><p>In art school, they always told me not to leave white spaces on a painting.</p><p>Always fill everything. Always saturate the surface until nothing is left unclaimed.</p><p></p><p>I used to get tens at the end of the year.</p><p>No one ever saw the chaos that protruded from the edges of my work&#8212;</p><p>the darkness that rose quietly from the corners of my own soul,</p><p>held back only by discipline, by rules, by &#8220;finish it properly.&#8221;</p><p></p><h2><em><strong>Should I show it to you? I don&#8217;t even know.</strong></em></h2><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I only know how to paint.</em></p><p></p><p>The brush touches the white surface,</p><p>then propels itself&#8212;fast, almost escaping me&#8212;</p><p>tumbling outward.</p><p></p><p>But it is important to leave white spaces.</p><p></p><p>Not emptiness. Not absence.</p><p>Breathing points.</p><p></p><p>Black spaces too.</p><p></p><p>//</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">&#22818;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#12398;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#26029;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#29255;</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Inside the white space.</em></p><p></p><p>The pale, almost indifferent calm of the beach.</p><p>o<em> meu rosto ficando calmo, os cabelos sempre voando no vento.</em></p><p><em>as m&#227;os tocando a &#225;gua</em>.</p><p>And then&#8212;</p><p>a small, soundless noise.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>soundless?</em></p><p style="text-align: center;">23:55.</p><p><strong>been painting since 8:00.</strong></p><p>The brush falls on the floor.</p><p style="text-align: right;">It is swallowed by the waves.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Suddenly, the water remembers it is not gentle.</p><p style="text-align: right;">The sea grows teeth&#8212;without becoming loud.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Bigger waves, collapsing inward instead of outward,</p><p style="text-align: right;">crashing not on me, but through me.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Eating me.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Algae unfolding my hands&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: right;">green fragments opening like slow mouths</p><p style="text-align: right;">in a forest of sharp-lit dawn.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Circles.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Animals.</p><p style="text-align: right;">something that should not have a name</p><p style="text-align: right;">biting at the edges of perception.</p><p style="text-align: right;">And still&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: right;">I sink.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Happily.</p><p style="text-align: right;">as if I had swallowed something sharp and alive,</p><p style="text-align: right;">a larva of salt and light,</p><p style="text-align: right;">and now everything is strangely justified.</p><p style="text-align: right;">alga(e).</p><p style="text-align: right;">and I am finally lying there&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: right;">righteously allong&#233;e.</p><p style="text-align: right;">A cruel smile on my face.</p><p style="text-align: right;">not because it is good&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: right;">but because it is real.</p><p style="text-align: right;">&#1594;&#1585;&#1602; </p><h3><em><strong>The third layer &#8212; the black algae work of art</strong></em></h3><p></p><h3><em><strong>I set myself on fire.</strong></em></h3><p>I sat before the white, lugubrious canvas&#8212;</p><p>not waiting.</p><p><em><s>Never</s></em><s> </s><em><s>waiting</s></em><s>.</s></p><p>I can only draw darkness.</p><p>My old colors, my tubes,</p><p>caught fire</p><p>the moment they touched the void.</p><p>-</p><h3>&#35433;&#30340;&#12391;</h3><p><em>Screeching through the ocean&#8212;</em></p><p>one wave <em>&#233;limin&#233;</em>,</p><p>two&#8212;</p><p>until counting dissolves.</p><p>I stand inside an empty obscurity.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Beautiful.</p><h4><strong>&#31169;&#12398;&#25163;&#12399;&#26126;&#26263;&#12434;&#25551;&#12367;</strong>&#12290;</h4><p><em><strong>My hands draw light and darkness at once</strong></em>.</p><p>They return stained&#8212;</p><p>not with paint,</p><p>but with <strong>turquoise memory.</strong></p><p>A small laughter breaks&#8212;</p><p>&#31505;&#31505;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#12527;&#12521;&#12527;&#12521;</p><p><em>The body forgets how to be serious in the abyss.</em></p><p>Turquoise spills into my mouth.</p><p>I have eaten the sea.</p><h4>&#28023;&#12398;&#29983;&#12365;&#29289;&#12364;&#29694;&#12428;&#12427;</h4><p>Sea creatures emerge</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>as thought learns to breathe.</strong></em></p><p>Faces mutate&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: center;">some laughing,</p><p>some screaming</p><p>without sound.</p><p>/</p><p>I </p><p>sink.</p><p>_</p><p>Above me&#8212;someone watches.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>I might be looking up at myself</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>beneath the algae.</strong></em></p><p>There is no surface anymore.</p><p>Only a mirror under the sea.</p><p><em>Profond</em>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>A small fish follows me.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Maria.</strong></em></p><p><em>Plus profond</em>.</p><p>A jellyfish drifts&#8212;</p><p>lonely, sovereign</p><p>of the dissolved world.</p><p>My body&#8212;</p><p><em><strong>deeper</strong></em>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>And in the trembling reflection&#8212;</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>my face.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p></p><p></p><h3><em><strong>The last layer &#8212; the vault</strong></em></h3><p>Sand crept under my nails.</p><p>I had to let go.</p><p><em><strong>I had to.</strong></em></p><p>The sky was still invisible,</p><p>but something was forming upward-</p><p><em><strong>&#12368;&#12427;&#12368;&#12427;</strong></em>,</p><p>a refusal of itself,</p><p>mastered only by the dark flow of nature.</p><p>I looked at my hands.</p><p>They were canvases.</p><p><em>Drenched in water. </em></p><p>Broken sheets of paper.</p><p><em>Black veils</em>.</p><p style="text-align: center;">LES VOILES NOIRES.</p><p><em>Je t&#8217;aime&#8230; I love you&#8230;</em></p><p>a voice haunting the sea.</p><p>A voice like a &#25244;&#12369;&#39318;.</p><p><em>Je t&#8217;aime. Te amo. I love you</em>.</p><p>Or do I?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Do you love me?</strong></em></p><p>Sweet love&#8212;</p><h4><strong>I wear the ragged black veil of our wedding.</strong></h4><p>Our vowels lost in a washing machine.</p><p>Underneath.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Underwater</em>.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>Dissolved words.</em></p><p>The vault opens.</p><p>I find <em><strong>you</strong></em> there.</p><p>Already burned, buried, multiplied by worry.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Even under this ocean&#8212;</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>why do you persist?</em></p><p><em>Je t&#8217;aime&#8230; Je t&#8217;aime&#8230;</em></p><p>When I close my eyes,</p><p>they <em>open</em>.</p><p>When I open my eyes,</p><p>they <em>sink</em>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>The abyss is a &#25244;&#12369;&#39318;,</strong></em></p><p>still saying:</p><p><em>Je t&#8217;aime&#8230; I LOVE YOU</em>&#8230;</p><p>&#38626;&#12428;&#12427;.</p><p>Leave.</p><p>Me.</p><h3><em><strong>Here</strong></em>.</h3><p>My body starts floating.</p><p>My body leaves you.</p><p>My body wants d&#233;racinement.</p><p>Not toward you&#8212;</p><p>but away from what you call &#8220;dead&#8221;.</p><h2>Even sacrifice is a bridge.</h2><div><hr></div><p><em>Thank you for reaching the bottom of the ocean.</em></p><p><em>If you wish to support this work as a ritual practice, leave an offering.</em></p><p><em>We do not stay long here. The next wave already forgets us.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scream II.I - 精製]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is art?]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/scream-ii1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/scream-ii1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:02:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OzDN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c05f0e9-4e00-4787-9c3c-7efc036aa776_3024x4032.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>[...] and a pen still warm from something I cannot name.</em></p><p><em>Yesterday, I tried to make another painting of the dark red moon.</em><br><em>Drawing its contrasts. Simply beautiful -</em><br><em>Yet I splashed the whole red tub of paint on the canvas.</em></p><p><em>Accidentally, I called it beautiful.</em></p><p><em>What really is art?</em></p><h2>Qu&#8217;est-ce que l&#8217;art ?</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OzDN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c05f0e9-4e00-4787-9c3c-7efc036aa776_3024x4032.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OzDN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c05f0e9-4e00-4787-9c3c-7efc036aa776_3024x4032.jpeg 424w, 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art</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>&#12450;&#12540;&#12488;&#12399;&#22303;&#12391;&#12391;&#12365;&#12390;&#12356;&#12427;&#12290;</strong></h3><p><em>I used to paint when I was little.</em><br>I wanted to control color, nuance, meaning.</p><p>I tried once from bliss -<br>heaven, laughter, saints smiling, god like a proud man.<br><em>It never went beyond school sketches.</em></p><p><em>Even my mother could have done that.</em><br>Her judgments, still hanging over my dull darkness.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>But I did not paint from heaven.<br>I painted from what breaks underneath it.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>The first coffee I ever drank, secretly at ten,<br>spilled onto a white school notebook.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>It became my first experiment<br>without permission.</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>&#33310;&#21488;&#35023;&#12398;&#33464;&#34899;</strong></h3><p>There are lights before the scene,<br>too clean, too bright to believe.</p><p>But behind the red curtains,<br>there is always something smaller &#8212;<br>a flicker, almost black, almost lightning.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>I screamed &#8212; &#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;&#12354;</strong></em></h3><p><em>Mother was not there.</em></p><p>Mother did not exist<br>when the blood hit the white sheets.</p><p><br>there is no scene</p><p style="text-align: center;">only a void<br><em><strong>and a pen</strong></em><br>still <em><strong>warm</strong></em></p><p>from something<br>I cannot name</p><p></p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong>And this is how art was born.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>If you feel called to the ritual,<br>you may enter.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Leave an offering&#8212;<br>and something will return to you:</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>a personal poem,<br>fragments from the archive,<br>voice readings,<br>pages torn from the diary.</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p><em>This is a new set of Screams.<br>The first twelve were revelations and combat&#8212;horror at an intensity still learning itself.<br>This one is the aftermath: purification, acceptance of dread.</em></p><p><em><strong>older scream rituals -</strong></em></p><p></p><div class="digest-post-embed" 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type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Dear reader,<br>this is nobody&#8217;s.</em></p><p><em>before Jeanne Vessantra.</em></p><p><em>a free fragment - for now.<br>the rest is sealed under ritual.</em></p><p><em>with these words, I cleanse<br>the void.</em></p><p></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KRc5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F443b5abb-626c-4af2-ab92-226141ca1284_774x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KRc5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F443b5abb-626c-4af2-ab92-226141ca1284_774x1350.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><em>Every line in this piece is written because I no longer know how to dance.</em></p><p></p><p>This morning, I opened the fridge looking for water.<br>Inside:<em> dark chocolate, meat, fruit, biscuits </em>&#8212; last night&#8217;s residue of hunger.<br>I turned away.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Only water.<br>Pure, dirty water. </em></p><p>I wanted to wash out<em> the dream.</em></p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>I dreamed of water. Too much water.<br>I was already inside it.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Between mountain stones, the river broke its own path open.<br>I adapted like an animal without thinking &#8212;<br>and still, my shelter collapsed.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>I built a wall. It didn&#8217;t stay.</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p>I lowered my head.<br>I became a vessel for what I could not hold.<br>&#24460;&#36864;&#12375;&#12383;&#12290;</p><p>Something like strength &#8212;<br>too large to be mine &#8212;<br>kept me from disappearing.</p><p><em>I screamed at no one:</em></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><br><em><strong>&#8220;Je vais mourir&#8217;&#8217;<br>I am going to die.</strong></em></h3><p>No one answered.<br>Or maybe water did.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">Even at the end, something inside me kept reaching.<br>Not for food.<br><em><strong>For life. <br>For death.<br>For art.</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p>I prepared breakfast like a body performing its duties while already gone.<br>Descending the stairs half-empty, half-maker.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>What I create is not form.<br>It is impact &#8212; carried in movement.</strong></em></p><p>I want to carve my face into something soft.<br><em>Chocolate. Flesh. Memory,<br>&#35352;&#25014;&#12289;&#20809;&#12290;</em></p><p>But I cannot eat.<br>I only give birth.<br>I only drink.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Night again.</em></p><p>I danced hungry<em>. Always hungry.</em><br>But never for food.</p><p>For water.</p><p><code>Seventy-one percent of Earth&#8217;s surface.<br>My unconscious.</code></p><p><code>Universal solvent.<br>Sixty percent of my body.</code></p><p><code>Flow of life.<br>Excitation of mind and heart.</code></p><p><code>Peace between God and the Devil &#8212;<br>a bridge between death and life.</code></p><p><code>Savior.<br>Killer.</code></p><div><hr></div><p>Yet I open the fridge blindly.<br>Greasy food. Bloody meat. Eggs I don&#8217;t touch.</p><p>I take the water. Half-frozen.</p><p>It slides down my throat like permission.</p><p style="text-align: center;">A voice:<br>&#8220;<em><strong>What do you want from me?<br>Why this arrogance?&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>No answer.</p><p>Only silence that listens back.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Something shifts.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><s>Maria ?_</s></strong></h3><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>
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style="text-align: center;"><em>leave a monthly offering.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>You will be granted passage.</em></p><p></p><p><em>- jeanne</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[corportation m3chanism - 安定？]]></title><description><![CDATA[d3f3ct10n]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/corportation-m3chanism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/corportation-m3chanism</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:02:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s5St!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F692ae42f-46f6-441f-b7f0-32b7fff52353_894x1312.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Dear reader,</strong><br>you are not supposed to read this.</em></p><p><em>Unless you already are.</em></p><p><em>Unless something in you refuses the shape of permission.</em></p><p><em>Unless you are inside a cage<br>that calls itself gold.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s5St!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F692ae42f-46f6-441f-b7f0-32b7fff52353_894x1312.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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porcelain<br>already forgetting softness.</p><p>The mirror saw it first.</p><p>Break.</p><p style="text-align: center;">BREAK.</p><p><em>It should have been obvious<br>I was already failing form.</em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong>Void_of power.<br>Flooded hope.<br>A flame almost becoming body&#8212;<br>gone.</strong></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>I always shower after returning.<br>For the small feet inside the shoes to rest.<br>For hair to return to something like light.</p><p>&#8212;</p><h3>SHOWER AND CIRCUITS</h3><p><em><strong>Water interrupts the system.</strong></em></p><p>Same body.<br>Different echo.<br>Almost explosion.<br>Change?</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>Est-ce que tout va r&#233;ellement bien, Jeanne ?</em></p><p style="text-align: right;">No.<br>No.</p><p>The flux left long ago.<br>It only simulates function now.</p><p><em><strong>Cracking.</strong></em></p><p><strong>Bris&#233;e.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;">She crawls out of structure&#8212;<br>because standing requires belief.</p><p>Steam from the spine.</p><p><em><strong>On her back: poems<br>that do not stay still.</strong></em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>What is fixed<br>betrays.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Water covers me.<br>Not cleansing&#8212;translation.</p><p>It passes through language<br>I cannot hold.</p><p><em><strong>Inside my body, the wheels soften.<br>The system loses resistance.</strong></em></p><p>Not destruction.<br>Undoing.</p><p>&#20405;&#30053; &#8212;<br>not resisted, not accepted.</p><p style="text-align: center;">just entering.</p><p>&#8212;</p><h3>CRACKING SELF</h3><p>&#32716;&#26085;&#12290;&#20181;&#20107;&#12290;</p><p>I was in bed.</p><p><br>The call arrived anyway.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>You are required.</strong></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Light in the hallway glitches.</p><p>The body reflects it.</p><p>Fractures&#8212;visible now.<br>Small, persistent.</p><p>Battery form without charge.<br>Electrified woman.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Circuit cracked.</strong></em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>Sunte&#539;i bine?<br>Vous allez bien ?</em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>Yes.</em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>No.</em></p><p>Heels break.<br>Both.</p><p>Clean separation.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p></p><p>I leave.</p><p>Still holding the broken structure<br>as if it could continue walking.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><em><strong>I was told: hold yourself<br>until something cracks.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>It already did.</strong></em></p><p>&#8212;</p><p>I am not stone.<br>I am water.</p><p>Armor does not fall&#8212;<br>it dissolves while I remain inside it.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Romanian. French. Japanese.<br>None hold.<br>There used to be fracture.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>Who am I<br>if not a mask<br>that refuses stability.</p><p>&#8212;</p><h3>THE LOST SELF</h3><p>They called it:</p><p>the one who loved<br>before employment.</p><p>before extraction.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>One night, some woman asked me</p><p style="text-align: right;"> "why does your back starts to..&#8217;&#8217; </p><p style="text-align: right;">"I&#8217;m fine&#8217;&#8217;</p><p> I answered, always with my broken heels.</p><p>Same answer.<br>Same fracture.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>I want it back.</p><p>No.</p><p>It moves like water.<br>It leaves only echo.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p>No beginning.<br>No revolution.</p><p></p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.&#8221; </p><p> -Virginia Woolf</p></div><div><hr></div><p></p><p><em><strong>STATUS: intermediate / unarchived / non-series</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" 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intimate.<br>Most of it will remain behind the paywall, because it touches one of my most fragile, unprotected places &#8212; and because it is also inseparable from my absurdist philosophy.</em></p><p><em>Still, I wanted to share this threshold with you.</em></p><p><em>Enjoy.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DA6N!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F128e99df-4603-4a94-982d-7cd1af2e4ebf_4568x3434.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DA6N!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F128e99df-4603-4a94-982d-7cd1af2e4ebf_4568x3434.jpeg 424w, 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spill out.</p><p>So I wrote, </p><p>quickly,</p><p> without breathing,</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><br><em><strong>erotica-god</strong></em></h3><p><em>Pull me toward the sun&#8212;<br>my own knowledge, my own rite.<br>Lack becomes a thunder. </em></p><p><em>Knowledge arrives misshapen, unforeseen&#8212;<br></em></p><p><em>Pull me toward erotica, God.<br>I love you.</em></p><p></p><h2>MY FAMILY WENT TO CHURCH</h2><p>Offering candles to the dead folk.<br>Paying money for the La C&#232;ne.<br>Saying prayers <br>Breathing smoke inside their pure lungs.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>Peux-tu ressentir le pouvoir de dieu dans l&#8217;air ?</em></p><p style="text-align: right;"></p><p style="text-align: right;">My father&#8217;s words floated proudly.</p><h4>I feel&#8230;<br>Une tension romantique.</h4><p></p><div class="pullquote"><p>We yearn for God.<br>But maybe it&#8217;s not him we love.<br>Eros is disguised as a martyr.</p></div><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ dispersed signal (VEIN V)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Transm&#8224;ss&#8224;0n]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/dispersed-signal-vein-v</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/dispersed-signal-vein-v</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:28:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>This is a record of perception under conditions of overload &#8212;<br>where body, language, and systems overlap<br>and no longer separate cleanly.</em></p><p><em>It may be read as a love story, or as an artist&#8217;s life online.<br>For me, it is the same: fusion.</em></p><p><em>Read slowly. Or not at all.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png" width="1080" height="1350" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1350,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2230071,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/i/194050648?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EXGM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e4bb198-9bde-4308-be20-c739c057fcd5_1080x1350.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><h3>(&#20154;&#38291;&#12392;&#27231;&#26800;)<br>HUMAN + MACHINE</h3><p>Flesh reduced to particles.<br>Not blood. Not anymore.</p><p>Metal meets nerve.<br>No negotiation. Only contact.</p><p>Sap &#8212; an electric bloom, almost wrong.</p><div><hr></div><h3>&#24444;&#12398;&#25265;&#25793;<br>(THEIR EMBRACE)</h3><p>Hands stay too long.<br>We called it friendship.</p><p>But skin disagrees.</p><p>Signal replaces certainty.<br>The body forgets its name.</p><p>Particles collide &#8212; biology without permission.</p><p><em>Are you yourself.<br>Am I.<br>Are we.</em></p><p>No answer &#8212; only pressure.<br><em>Exp&#233;rience sur moi.<br>Sur nous.</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>Do we exist<br>or only mirror each other in delay?</p></div><div><hr></div><p>Today: fucked-up in my lonely room.<br>Next day: sharing kisses.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em><strong>Same loop. Different angle.</strong></em></p><p>Distance collapses.<br><em><strong>Closeness repeats.<br><s>repeat. <br>Repeat.</s></strong></em></p><p>The tree will fall.</p><p><br>I am afraid of the root learning solitude.</p><div><hr></div><p>I speak to you<br>through wires &#8212; &#12452;&#12531;&#12479;&#12540;&#12493;&#12483;&#12488;</p><p>Safer than warmth.<br>Safer than skin.</p><div><hr></div><h3 style="text-align: right;">Where I end is where you begin.</h3><p></p><p>Do you feel my words,<br>or do they only simulate you ?</p><p>I reach for my laptop.<br>It burns back.</p><p><em>Listen.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Always distant. Always connected.<br>Inside / outside collapsing softly.</p><p>A trick remains &#8212;<br>a flicker refusing extinction.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">We are alone.<br>We are connected.<br>Both are true at the same time.</h4><div><hr></div><h3>(&#20869;&#12394;&#12427;&#24515;&#65309;&#12487;&#12472;&#12479;&#12523;&#12452;&#12531;&#12463;)<br>INNER MIND = DIGITAL INK</h3><p>Dispersed writing.<br>Not broken &#8212; scattered on purpose.</p><p>Letters lose their spine.</p><p>You like it.<br>Don&#8217;t you?</p><p>Watching language crack its own body.</p><p>I withdraw from yours<br>while still reaching.</p><p>I dissolve at distance.<br>Still held.</p><p>Online.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#31169;&#12399;&#22855;&#36321;&#12434;&#20449;&#12376;&#12427;&#12289;&#12397;&#65311;<br>We believe in miracles, don&#8217;t we?</p></div><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>If the transmission reaches you, leave a monthly offering.<br>Haunting is a side effect of reception.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Birthed from the same ritual -</em></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;52766b1d-243f-4047-b1c0-e9e199fbe2bf&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I made a playlist for this lecture.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot; destiny.exe (VEIN IV)&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:360162487,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jeanne Vessantra&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Poetic psychological horror. 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Vessantra &quot;,&quot;subtitle&quot;:&quot;By Jeanne&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Playlist&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3nE2TzuNc3RvqvalvAJAWk&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;noScroll&quot;:false}" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3nE2TzuNc3RvqvalvAJAWk" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allowfullscreen="true" allow="encrypted-media" data-component-name="Spotify2ToDOM"></iframe><p><br></p><div><hr></div><p><em>Dear reader,</em></p><p><em>They start again.</em></p><p><em>Not dreams.<br>Something rehearsing itself inside me.<br>Night after night.<br>Until I wake up already screaming.</em></p><p><em>I know where they come from.<br>That is the worst part.</em></p><p><em>They do not arrive.<br>They return.</em></p><p><em>And still&#8212;something in me refuses them.<br>Like a body rejecting its own organ.</em></p><p><em>They are mechanical.</em></p><p><em>I did not write this to understand them.<br>I wrote it because they would not stay inside.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!duov!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8204cff4-5204-41c9-aa60-ec161312394c_4000x5000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!duov!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8204cff4-5204-41c9-aa60-ec161312394c_4000x5000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!duov!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8204cff4-5204-41c9-aa60-ec161312394c_4000x5000.jpeg 848w, 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mother opens the door.</p><p>No knocking.</p><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard you scream, Marie.&#8221;</em></p><p>Marie.</p><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine.&#8221;</em></p><p>She closes the door.</p><p>Silence falls.</p><div><hr></div><p>The dream continues without me.</p><p>Only Destiny remains.<br>                      Soft. Bright. Vibrating.</p><p><em><strong>We are in a cathedral.</strong></em></p><p>An old woman with burned-thread hair.<br><em><strong>The Witch.</strong></em></p><p>She blesses us with a Bible that does not stay still.</p><p><em>&#8220;Happy marriage, my children&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p>Her voice bends like a melody.</p><p>Destiny melts under my kiss,<br>Fracture, fraction within a love&#8217;s gesture. </p><p>She leans into my ear:</p><h4><em><strong>Execute the ritual.<br>Under moonlight.</strong></em></h4><div><hr></div><p><strong>I wake up.</strong></p><p><strong>Before understanding. <br><br>moonlight crack. </strong></p><div><hr></div><h1>THE RITUAL</h1><div><hr></div><p></p><h3>&#21517;&#12434;&#26360;&#12367;<br>(WRITE YOUR NAME)</h3><h1>D<br>E<br>S<br>T<br>I<br>N<br>Y</h1><p>The Witch had said, <br>Close to my ear:<br>they belong together.</p><p>Black-charcoal skin. Still burning.</p><p>I write it again.</p><h1>DESTINY</h1><p style="text-align: center;">                              Too close to erase itself.<br>                                  Too close to become real.</p><p><em>Je t&#8217;aime.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZsAJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57c364c7-1e1d-4977-92ff-413c9a318cce_4000x2192.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZsAJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57c364c7-1e1d-4977-92ff-413c9a318cce_4000x2192.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><div><hr></div><p><em>The paper had to drown.</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h3>&#32025;&#12434;&#27700;&#12395;&#28024;&#12377;<br>(WET THE PAPER)</h3><p>It turns yellow.</p><p>Like memory decaying.</p><p>Dirty water closing in.</p><p>We break&#8212;Destiny and I&#8212;like wet paper.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>Floating.</em></p><p style="text-align: right;">Knowing nothing.                       </p><p style="text-align: right;">The room remains.                                                              </p><p>Where I used to be small.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><h3>&#26376;&#12398;&#38996;&#12395;&#21517;&#12434;&#32622;&#12367;<br>(THE MOON AND THE WET PAPER)</h3><p>Dark moonlight.</p><p>A paper on the windowsill. Not mine. Not yours.</p><p>The moon bends.</p><p><strong>&#12462;&#12521;&#12462;&#12521;.</strong></p><p>It scratches the air.</p><p>The moon stutters.</p><p>I test distance with my hand.</p><p>Silence opens its mouth.</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;I am your wind.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>The air changes direction.</p><p>I turn.</p><p>DESTINY?</p><div><hr></div><h3>&#26376;&#12398;&#28784;&#12363;&#12425;&#30446;&#35226;&#12417;&#12427;</h3><h3>(BABY FROM THE MOON&#8217;S ASHES)</h3><p>A small body.</p><p>Burning residue.</p><p>He does not move like a person.</p><p>Only rests.</p><p>I never touch him.</p><div><hr></div><h3>&#31169;&#12398;&#27231;&#26800;&#20181;&#25499;&#12369;&#12398;&#24859;<br>(MY MECHANICAL LOVE)</h3><p>(<em><strong>Your mind&#8212;are you fine?)</strong></em></p><p>Yes. All good.</p><p>(<em><strong>Do you need coffee?)</strong></em></p><p>Silence. Unable to mutter. </p><p>The moon is too bright.</p><p>He leaves.</p><p><em><strong>Later.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Later. </strong></em></p><p><br>He says.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;">Plus tard n&#8217;est pas une promesse.<br>Il s&#8217;efface en &#233;tant pens&#233;.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Later is not a promise.<br>It disappears the moment it is thought.</p><div><hr></div><p>I wake up.</p><p>Mother.</p><p>Marie again.</p><p>Silence.</p><div><hr></div><p>Mechanic.</p><p>We are dehumanized.</p><p>Sold at the market of dreams.</p><p>No chocolate for children<br>in love with myth.</p><p>Destiny gave me promise.</p><p>Later.</p><div><hr></div><p>ONE LAST DREAM</p><p>My eyes fall inside the cathedral.</p><p>I kiss Destiny.</p><p>The Witch returns.</p><p>No entrance.</p><p>No sound.</p><p>She is already smiling.</p><p>th3re w1ll b3 m0re</p><p>~You are not the last~</p><p>The letters fail.</p><p>Her body fractures&#8212;</p><p>not into void,</p><p>but into continuation.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br><em>If this spoke to your soul, I may craft for you a ritualized poem&#8212;<br>but only in exchange for an offering.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>I wish you transgressive days, reader.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em>More from the same ritual </em></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;ddd51f87-1628-403a-a30d-dddfb2c4fc47&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&#119855;&#119838;&#119842;&#119847; &#119816;&#119816;&#119816;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;we are veins and electricity (VEIN III)&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:360162487,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jeanne Vessantra&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Poetic psychological horror. 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electrocuted.)</em></p><p>Blood does not fall.<br>Our bodies contain only electricity.<br>Betrayal?</p><p>The mother crumbles, crying<br>over a bed empty as a shadow.<br>The child vanished.</p><p>&#32218;&#12399;&#12381;&#12398;&#12414;&#12414;&#12290;<br><em>(the wires remain)</em></p><p>White electricity spins in wind.<br>The wires &#8212; this god of connection &#8212;<br>twisted, straight, cities, villages &#8212;<br>Rest, breathe.</p><h3><br><strong>BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH.</strong></h3><h3></h3><p>White light. <em>lumi&#232;re blanche.</em></p><p>We are always connected.</p><p>Loving God, loving God &#8212;<br>we venerate, like a drug.<br>We venerate drugs,<br>consume each other.<br>We are connected.<br>We are God.</p><p>Loving God &#8212;<br>He streams, a boiling sun.</p><p>&#25509;&#32154;&#32218;&#12540;&#28528;&#12428;&#12383;&#12290;<br><em>(connection wires &#8212; collapsed)</em></p><p>They call it chaos.<br>I call it vibration.<br>Connection.<br>Birth.<br>Recommencement.</p><p>They scream at the macadam,<br>and vanish into shadows.</p><p>I hug the wires.<br>Blend. Meddle.<br><em>M&#233;langer. Br&#251;ler.</em></p><p>Electrical chaos is always my destination.</p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>                                   &#119826;&#119853;&#119838;&#119849; &#119842;&#119847;&#119853;&#119848; &#119846;&#119858; &#119836;&#119854;&#119845;&#119853;. &#119822;&#119847;&#119845;&#119858; &#119853;&#119841;&#119838; &#119836;&#119854;&#119851;&#119842;&#119848;&#119854;&#119852; &#119852;&#119854;&#119851;&#119855;&#119842;&#119855;&#119838;.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p></p><p><em>more from the same ritual - </em></p><p><br><br>&#119855;&#119838;&#119842;&#119847; &#119816;</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;7e1f96b9-e393-44f7-b141-6c651934dc6a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I will call this VEIN #I.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Persistent Flicker &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:360162487,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jeanne Vessantra&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Poetic psychological horror. 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(VEIN II)]]></title><description><![CDATA[s3lf-l0ngu0g3]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/how-to-decodify-god</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/how-to-decodify-god</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:28:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LGMl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72e4ee66-d608-497a-9423-bd51de6be287_1080x1350.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p><strong>Proverbs 18:21</strong> : &#171; Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. </p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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root.<br>Now I cut to the VEIN.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Skin and shards<br>God&#8217;s meadow burned<br>Inside the church, a low electrical hum<br>Preacher fuming through static<br>&#21608;&#22258; tightening<br>God&#8217;s meadow caught in my hands - d&#233;chir&#233;e<br>the device still warm against the pew<br>I tried to touch the sancta&#8217;s torso<br><br></p><p>GOD IS MADE OF RHODONITE</p><p><em>Dieu est.. &#224; l&#8217;int&#233;rieur de moi ?<br>Des particules se transmettent..?</em></p><p>The blood electrified me became into me became me</p><p>Rhodonite under my skin<br>granular, pressing the pulse<br>this ache - a bridge<br>a threshold into Heaven?</p><p>                       I stepped without hesitation off the staircases&#8230;.</p><div><hr></div><p></p><p><br>Signs from God filled up this sky <br>Ugly city. Is faith the only thing keeping it alive?<br>They&#8217;ve all long stopped questioning it. Touching it. <br>Dissecating it. </p><p>Maybe this is why, inside the church,<br>I decided to decode god.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p></p><p><em>Become an initi&#233; to read the next part.</em></p><p><em>I&#8217;ve crafted a voice-over for the next part, <br>And a full guide on how to decode God on your own. <br>Can you decode god on your own?</em></p><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistent Flicker (VEIN I)]]></title><description><![CDATA[p0sthum0n]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/persistent-flicker</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/persistent-flicker</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:31:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u8w9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3ad2fa2-29f1-48fa-8b6d-cf9d3ad2b43c_3864x5156.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <em>I will call this <strong>VEIN #I</strong>.<br>The next parts will arrive in your free or paid newsletters.</em></p><p><em>In this mechanical world,<br>there is connection.<br>There is hope.</em></p><p><em>Perhaps this is all<br>that still keeps the wires moving -<br>from Bucarest<br>to Paris<br>to Tokyo.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u8w9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3ad2fa2-29f1-48fa-8b6d-cf9d3ad2b43c_3864x5156.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u8w9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3ad2fa2-29f1-48fa-8b6d-cf9d3ad2b43c_3864x5156.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u8w9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3ad2fa2-29f1-48fa-8b6d-cf9d3ad2b43c_3864x5156.jpeg 848w, 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r&#233;seaux<br>semblent-ils seuls ?</strong></em></p><p></p><p><em>Am I defective ?<br>Incomplete ?</em></p><p><em>                      No.</em></p><p><em>                             You are not incomplete.<br>                              an early version of the calendar of eternity<br>                                                  designed to stand<br>                                above the great connection.</em></p><p>Behind me, another &#23376; ( child)&#8212;<br>wire-predestined &#8212;<br>reading a book of light<br>as if it were instruction.</p><p>The teacher&#8217;s mouth,<br>half-open,<br>metallic,<br>prisonier between answer and error.</p><p>&#31192;&#23494;*</p><p>What if we break god down<br>with words,<br>with doubt,<br>with insensible, animal curiosity ?</p><p>Will anything remain ?</p><p>Mother said:<br>God never died &#8212;<br>it never will. </p><p>But I still see<br>the same white flicker &#8212;</p><p>pretending<br>to be constant.<br><br>While the icon_yy-<br>Is gone inside <br>laughter enters the bloodstream<br>as signal<br>as circulation</p><div><hr></div><p>&#31192;&#23494;* - untold whispers.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>       &#8220;Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn&#8217;t go away.&#8221; - Philip K. 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INK.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Writing is a descent<br>                                                                  &#8230;&#8230;an escape.</p><p>We burn the sheets<br>to return<br>to the burnt womb &#8212; maybe,<br>to something simpler,<br>to something deeper.<br>                                                                                        (<em>Parfois, simplicit&#233; &#8212; profondeur.</em>)</p><p>Each page aflame is a mirror:<br>we search for a soul inside ourselves.<br>Une preuve.<br>&#35388;&#25312;&#12290;</p><div><hr></div><p>Writing is memory.</p><p><em>No.</em></p><p><em>                                         Writing is the creation of memory &#8212;<br>                                                              a mechanism only our veins know.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Memory - horror.</p><p>Memory scatters &#8212; I jump.<br>Memory scatters &#8212; I burn.<br>Memory eats &#8212; I try to write language that breathes,<br>but letters escape<br>Letters commit suicide under my eyes<br>like prayers never meant<br>to be whispered.</p><p>I tried to break out &#8212;<br>to carve space from it &#8212;</p><p>                          &#231;a ne bouge pas.<br>Ain&#8217;t working.</p><p>I tried to recall<br>what I was,<br>how to bend,<br>how to behave better<br>at school &#8212; at work - with family - </p><p>yet why does trying<br>so quickly become<br>A form of horror?</p><p>Horror is never straightforward.<br>It gathers.<br>Layer after layer of living matter,<br>Frustration<br>Environement hungry,</p><p>waiting<br>for a mouth<br>capable<br>of surviving</p><p> a  free language.</p><div><hr></div><p>Horror &#8212; art.</p><p>Art is a horror to endure.<br>Otherwise,<br>it becomes a burden<br>the body cannot carry.</p><p>Memory is matter for the future &#8212;<br>soil for the boiling<br>of new fruit.</p><p>Art is not something to admire.</p><p>Art is dirty.</p><div><hr></div><p>Horrifically,<br>my hands press<br>against the rigid balcony &#8212;</p><p>dreaming,<br>thinking<br>about writing.</p><p>Viscerally, <br>Without asking -<br>They know <br>the impossibility - <br>They&#8217;ll never <br>&#32118;&#23550;&#12288;&#12540; write as they wish. </p><p>&#22818;&#12391;&#12418;&#12289;<br>&#29694;&#23455;&#12391;&#12418;&#12289;</p><p>Our vision is a dream.<br>Real art requires breaking the vision. </p><p></p><p>There is empty space - between us and the creation: <br>The vision and the product </p><p>Are broken. </p><p>parfois ce d&#233;calage&#8230;. la preuve de la r&#233;ussite. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sunday Echo: &#8220;Are we done?&#8221;<br>Jeanne: &#8220;Only for now.&#8221;<br>Infinite Self: &#8220;The pages remain.&#8221;</p><p></p><p></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;">Memory burns &#8212; &#28988;&#12369;&#12427; &#8212; je respire &#8212; still alive &#8212; ancora dentro.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">                                                                                        The echo stops here.<br>                                                           &#8230;<br>                     &#8230;<br>&#8230;. </p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8230;.</p><p style="text-align: center;">.</p><div><hr></div><p>   &#127769;   LAST ECHO &#127769;</p><p>  <em>add one word</em></p><p><em>any language</em></p><p><em>something you rarely allow yourself to say</em></p><p><em>one word only    </em></p><p><em>I will turn them into a piece or poem.         </em></p><p><em>                  </em></p><p>           &#8594;              <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pvelWnweeNd5adZBFImwtsMKG-JLLhBRxUQdWf_lD8A/edit?tab=t.0">The/unspoken</a></p><p></p><p>                                     </p><div><hr></div><p></p><p><em>The last echo is yours to take. 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                      Jeanne&#8217;s crow-breath  </p><p>begging for bread  </p><p>            arms open  </p><p>                    toward God&#8217;s sky  </p><p>Because the only thing  </p><p>an artist can do  </p><p>            is accept  </p><p>                        her darkness  </p><p>and make dessert from it  </p><p>Ink  </p><p>Write  </p><p>I told myself  </p><p>Yet each time  </p><p>            writing  </p><p>                    crumbled  </p><p>It always  </p><p>            &#39592;&#25240;&#12375;&#12383;  </p><p>I wrote  </p><p>            encore  </p><p>Looking back &#8212;  </p><p>                    the word  </p><p>                            disappears  </p><p>Yet  </p><p>        a stain  </p><p>                tache de sang  </p><p>                        abrindo-se  </p><p>Maybe it will never end  </p><p>Yet even endless  </p><p>Life  </p><p>        is closer to writing  </p><p>                than we think  </p><p>Blood-stained  </p><p>            is often  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Same time. Same task.</strong></p><p>A headache forms<br>behind my eye &#8212;<br>as if something is watching back<br>and waiting.</p><p>Silence &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. grows.<br>Rain &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. falls and forgets me.</p><p>&#8220;Where are you going?&#8221;<br>&#8220;To work,&#8221; I whispered.<br>Or did I?<br>Or did I float?</p><p>Sky &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; white.<br>Face &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. white.</p><p>Je vais &#234;tre en retard. <em>Late.<br></em>&#8212; For what?<br>For who?</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>                                                             Road in the dark</strong></p><p>Night comes &#8212; standing, almost breathing,<br>splitting the street in two.<br>It burns &#8212;<br>not for light<br>but to know<br>me<br>until I fracture.</p><p>Long way &#8212; &#21512;&#26684;&#12375;&#12414;&#12375;&#12383; (<em>I passed&#8230;</em>)<br>Short distance &#8212; &#20181;&#20107;&#12391; (<em>At work&#8230;</em>)<br>Here &#8212; &#12371;&#12371;&#12391;&#36317;&#38626;&#12391;&#12377; (<em>Here &#8212; the distance is here&#8230;</em>)</p><p>I ran &#8212;<br>not to reach her,<br>but to fold myself into her absence.</p><p>Still &#8212;<br>she stays<br>distant<br>inside the hollow of me.</p><p><em>Elle ne tremble pas.</em><br>She does not blink.<br>She does not bend.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>                                                        Road in the day</strong></p><p>Days burn (liminence)<br>Gliding up / down streets<br>filled with people<br>like spilled paint.</p><p>Lost in the crowd &#8212;<br>I will search for you<br>with bare hands,<br>breaking ground,<br>lifting sky.</p><p>So close, yet so far.<br>Mais je vois pas ton pr&#233;sence.<br>Les oiseaux chantent<br>les rengaines du bleu.<br>I step on their songs.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>                                           Couloir du travail (work corridor)</strong></p><p>It returns &#8230;<br>bounces back &#8230;<br>folds over itself.</p><p>A road shining around me<br>Somebody bleaching it<br>with a laughter<br>too sharp to hold.</p><p></p><p>&#20309;&#12364;&#12434;&#12290;&#12290;&#12290;&#25506;&#12375;&#12390;&#12356;&#12414;&#12377;&#12290;<br>(<em>Searching&#8230; for something&#8230; what&#8230;?</em>)<br>For&#8230; &#12510;&#12522;&#12450;&#12290;&#29595;&#20029;&#20122;. (<em>For Maria.</em>)</p><p></p><p>Menaced &#8230; always menaced<br>by laughing mirror-walls.<br>By my own face.<br>By shadows that dance like me.</p><p></p>
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you.]]></description><link>https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-x-milk-galaxy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jeannevessantra.substack.com/p/echo-x-milk-galaxy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeanne Vessantra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:28:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z7sA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F892d24b2-1c22-43ae-ba03-a52ca1cc4bae_4319x4889.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;265db814-2964-4080-8966-08025afa77cc&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I live inside a house that moves.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full 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I&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O8wG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e280b0-174c-4374-b4c4-3a5b7f694bac_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p><em>To fully feel the vibration of this Echo, you must read the Scream.<br>The continuation hums in the walls of Maria&#8217;s House.</em></p><p><br><strong>STEP CAREFULLY&#8230;</strong></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z7sA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F892d24b2-1c22-43ae-ba03-a52ca1cc4bae_4319x4889.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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light into the corners of my mind.<br>                                                                                             <em>Elle is partie de toi, du.. Hell&#8230;</em><br>She appeared without warning,<br>jumped off a rainbow and became present<br>in the back of my room,<br>whispering like a shadow I didn&#8217;t know I carried.</p><p></p><p></p><h3>MOVEMENT II - THE FIRST DISTURBANCE</h3><p><strong>III</strong><br>Something bumped inside me.<br>On the wall? No.<br>Not right. On the mirror? No mirror.<br>Only reflection.</p><p>My&#8230; reflection?<br>It fluctuates like water.<br>I fluctuate too&#8212;<br>I make it float on my tongue.</p><p>                                           &#12414;&#12426;&#12354;</p><p>&#12288;&#12510;&#12522;&#12450;</p><p>I return to work.<br>Home work is scary.<br>No distraction.<br>Only the music of my own thoughts,<br>like water.<br>Only</p><p>                                                            only &#12510;&#12522;&#12450;.</p><p></p><p><strong>IV</strong><br>The milk runs on my tongue.<br>My eyes closed.<br>&#12385;&#12421;&#12540;&#12385;&#12421;&#12540;.</p><p>A private madeleine.<br>Why do I faint?<br>Why do I see now?<br>What do I see?</p><p>A sky?<br>No&#8212;black walls.<br>&#12510;&#12522;&#12450;<br>Maria.</p><p><strong>V</strong><br>                                   <em>Les murs ont pris la forme d&#8217;une cascade.*</em><br>I take small steps&#8230; I take place&#8230;</p><p>Downstairs&#8230; I thought I heard&#8230; mummy and Daddy&#8230;<br>call each other pigs&#8230;</p><p>Toujours une cascade.</p><p>Mom? Dad? You ok?</p><p>Sur la cascade&#8230; vite&#8230; glissant&#8230;</p><p>Maria confronts the obscurity with a laugh.<br>(::)<br>&#31505;&#31505;</p><p>&#31505;&#31505;</p><p>(::)</p><p>:)</p><p>(:</p><p>:(</p><p>:)</p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>*<em>The walls are cascades.</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h3>MOVEMENT III - THE CORRIDOR</h3><p></p><p><strong>VI</strong><br>I was so thirsty.<br>I smelled milk.<br>On the kitchen table, maybe, I thought.</p><p>But as I descended the long corridor,<br>I could no longer tell<br>which door was the kitchen<br>and which one my parents&#8217; bedroom.</p><p>They both smelled of milk.</p><p><strong>VII</strong><br>Mother does not breastfeed.<br>I can&#8217;t remember if she ever did.</p><p>&#12394;&#12380;&#31169;&#12399;&#12289;&#24444;&#22899;&#12398;&#24433;&#12434;&#35302;&#12428;&#12427;&#12383;&#12403;&#12289;<br>&#32618;&#12434;&#24605;&#12356;&#20986;&#12377;&#12398;&#12384;&#12429;&#12358;&#12290;*</p><p><strong>VIII</strong><br>I won&#8217;t drink milk.<br>I&#8217;ll go to my room, looking again for&#8230; water.</p><p><strong>IX</strong><br>In the chamber, I don&#8217;t open the light.<br>My eyes&#8212;&#12366;&#12423;&#12387;&#12289;&#12401;&#12385;&#12387;&#8212;<br>startled by what might be.</p><p>The obscurity offers anonymity.<br>Cold warmth.</p><p><strong>X</strong><br>The invisible spaces between words<br>still lie to me.</p><p>Whenever I sleep,<br>I am half-thirsty for milk,<br>half-trembling&#8212;<br>oh no&#8212;potential dark.</p><p><strong>XI</strong><br>Yet I take once again<br>steps toward the mirror glass<br>in the back of my room.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p><em>*why do I feel guilty each time I touch her shadow?</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h3>MOVEMENT IV - THE REVELATION</h3><p><strong>XII</strong><br>Who is there?</p><p>&#12472;&#12455;&#12450;&#12531;&#12492;&#12290;</p><p>I don&#8217;t speak your language.<br>It isn&#8217;t my language.</p><p>Tell me, Maria&#8212;do you even have one?<br>(The language of my parents&#8230;?)</p><p>Oh, Maria&#8230;<br>Don&#8217;t you see the walls swelling around you?<br>The darkness thickening&#8212;laughing in your face?</p><p>Who are you?</p><p>Yourself.<br>I am Jeanne Vessantra.</p><p></p><p></p><p>MOVEMENT V - THE SPLIT LIFE</p><p><strong>XIII</strong></p><p><br>The room feels less cloudy and more close.<br>As I fall asleep I see<br>the </p><p>walls</p><p> slowly </p><p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;disintegrating&#8230;&#8230;..</p><p></p><p>My dark pink, doll-filled wealthy childhood room<br>becomes the Brooklyn apartment of the poor artist.</p><p></p><p><strong>XIV &#8212; MARIA</strong></p><p><br><em>Oh, I almost heard<br>Papa&#8217;s feet<br>stepping into the house.<br>At midnight?</em></p><p><strong>XV</strong></p><p><br><em>Excuse-moi, maman !!!!</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;We all create stories to protect ourselves.&#8221;<br>&#8213; <strong>Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves.</strong></p></div><p></p><h3>END ?</h3><p></p><p><strong>The childhood bed.</strong></p><p>I fall again into my father&#8217;s arms.<br>We are family&#8212;<br>so the bed becomes a small country for three bodies.</p><p>I lie in the middle.<br>Mother arrives last, on my left,<br>breathless, carrying a glass so full it trembles.</p><p>I drink. Greedy.<br>Milk spilling down my throat<br>like a small white galaxy&#8212;&#37504;&#27827;&#8212;<br>while my arms circle their necks,<br>holding them both as if they might disappear.</p><p></p><h3><em><strong>END  #II ?</strong></em></h3><p></p><p>The</p><p> story </p><p>does </p><p>not </p><p>end </p><p>here.</p>
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