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Where were they a thing at all, though?

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Makes for a nice commute if nothing else.
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Hrrggh...
*Jumps up and grabs the string to a projector screen, pulls it down, and puts a pair of glasses on my face*
Ahem.
*The lighting around us dims as four lines are projected to the screen, each broken into sets of two, with the top of the bottom two lines taking a sharp angle upward and briefly intersecting with the top two lines before dropping back down to its original height*
Consider the top to be our world and history. The bottom is a fake world and its history.
*Runs a laser pointer along the top of the bottom set of lines to the intersection, where a stick figure stands with an exclamation point above it*
But here, the fake briefly touches the real world and history. And even though the fake stuff never happened, it can still mess with our world and future! And [i]that[/i]—
*Releases the string, causing the projector screen to roll up into the darkness of the ceiling*
Is where the absurd lives.