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From: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Grayshift

Tags: Time-Memory Senses-Perception Fact-Fiction Grayshiftn.the tendency for future goals and benchmarks to feel huge when viewed in advance, only to fade into banality as soon as you’ve achieved them—finally reaching the top of the ladder, only to notice it circling back around like a hamster wheel. A variation on redshift and blueshift, the astronomical processes that make objects moving away look redder than they really are, and objects moving toward you look bluer. Tags: Time-Memory Senses-Perception Fact-Fiction CHAPTER: Roll the Bones CHAPTER:

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