What Hole?
Published in 2025
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Imagine that you're standing in a train station during rush hour. Everyone is moving around you—toward platforms, toward exits, toward somewhere else. Every single one of them looks like they know where they're going, even the trains themselves, even the constantly closing-and-reopening ticket gates.
But notice: none of them are there yet. Not one. They're all still in some special place between where they are and where they want to be. So here's my question: what's actually driving them? Obviously, the trains. But the trains haven't arrived either. And if you stopped any one of them and asked—would they point out the hole in the otherwise perfectly-solid cement platform?
Finally, if you asked the ticket gates, open(ing and closing, open)ing and closing—would their answer be any different from yours?