It took a while, but communication was
finally at a point where it was more meaningful that just a exchange
of simple ideas. It was as though everything you thought was in
focus suddenly shifted out, went wide angle and made a much better
picture. It took some getting used to the idea that people you
thought you knew almost as well as yourself was an illusion. What
people had was a vague collection of ideas that happened to match
what was visible enough to believe it. What it ignored, was that the
internal workings were almost entirely unlike what one imagined.
People were much more varied and complex than had been previously
thought. It was the difference between stumbling around in twilight
looking at stick figures and seeing an engineering drawing under
bright light.
It was hard to say if people had more
insight into the turn of a phrase, subtle facial reactions, and the
like, or if something more extraordinary was happening. It would be a
fair amount of time till that it was decided to be a bit of both.
What was clear was that it would have been awkward and confusing had
it happened sooner.
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