I was attempting to use the phenomenon whereby one is looking at a flock of - for example - falficores from a great distance but is unable to see them because of one's inability to distinguish individual creatures at such a range, whereupon they suddenly coalesce and flock together, gathering into a tighter grouping and becoming suddenly visible as though out of nothing, as a metaphor for the often equally precipitous experience of conceptual comprehension.
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
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