This was not simply frustrating – it was exhausting. It was utterly dispiriting. It seemed that any direction I tried to move in was blocked, inexplicably. What’s more, there seemed to be a definite reason why it was blocked, but I was going to be the last to know what that reason was.

[for electric guitar, synth, and fishwalk]

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