Monday, 22 September 2025

The Horizon of the Next Word

The final dialogue?


RHEO: So, is this where we stop? After so many turns, it feels like a point of closure.

TOPO: Closure, yes — but not an end. A pause, perhaps. The path keeps unfolding, whether or not we walk it here.

RHEO: And yet I feel the weight of conclusion — the impulse to gather what has been said into a whole.

TOPO: Gathering is good. But every whole is also a cut, a perspective, not a totality. What we bind together now becomes the ground for other openings.

RHEO: Then what we call an ending is really a marking — a way of saying: here, for now.

TOPO: Exactly. This “final” dialogue makes the ongoingness visible.

RHEO: So, shall we name this the last?

TOPO: Yes, the last of this series — and the first of what it makes possible.


RHEO & TOPO (in unison):

We end to begin.
We close to open.
The final word is never final.
It is the horizon of the next word.

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