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July 11, 2025

paraluman #36

gambit

A concrete chessboard outside a concret building. A black queen and white queen face each other, and a second white queen is laid down. A brick holds a piece of paper on the opposite edge.
gambit

I very much become attached to lines for some time until they get fully processed by whatever weird machinations that go on in my head, but today, I kept coming back “earned arrogance is called confidence and unearned arrogance is just called arrogance.”

But it also brings up this idea of an earned/unearned hesitation. And I’m not really sure what to do with that yet.

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