A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
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Now it is your turn to listen to me. To listen to my proofs though I know you will not be convinced. Imagine this walking through the countryside One day you come across a paddock, lying there on their sides, in the dust are naturally still are four horses all for a prone with no horses standing, they do not breathe and do not as far as you can see move. They are to all appearances dead. And yet on the edge of the paddock, not 20 yards distant, a man feels their trough with water are the horse is alive and appearance is deceptive as the man simply not yet turned to see that the horses are dead. Or has he been so shaken by what he has seen that he doesn't know what to do but proceed as if nothing has happened. If you turn and walk hurriedly on leaving before anything decisive happens, what do the horses become for you? They remain both alive and dead, which makes them not quite alive nor quite dead. And what in turn, carrying that paradoxical knowledge in your head? Does that make you