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You might be asking yourself, “Why doesn’t it matter if it’s real?” Good! You can draw whatever conclusions you like, but I think Mab’s point is that if you want to play around here, have a reasonable explanation for the conclusions you draw. It doesn’t matter if it’s real because you’re a participant, willing or not. Try as you may, you can’t detach yourself from what is.

Although we would all like to be implicitly understood (tacit knowledge be damned!), that just isn’t possible. The two of us have managed to refine our ability to communicate knowledge to one another, and I feel it is one of my civil duties to build a bridge for you, Beginners. Know that Mab begins at the foundation. She makes no assumptions. And although quite a passionate human (dancer), she is able to quarantine her emotional bias for the sake of veracity.

Communicating with Mab is about asking the right questions. She wants to be understood and to understand, and I’ve taught her that explanation is necessary in this day and age, as we still use vocal and written language and not telepathy. Bend, don’t break.

Beginners, you need to know that if you decide to come ‘round with guns of preconceived notions a blazin’, you’re liable to receive a seriously incisive tongue-lashing. And not the good kind. (At some point, she’ll probably threaten to punch you in the face, but that’s all talk.) I’ll mostly just chuckle, as I’m the Vince Noir to her Howard Moon.

That being said, we plan to tackle topics of all sorts. Existentialism just happens to be a favorite. Eventually we’re going to say things, instead of saying things about what we plan to say. Dun dun dun!