This is...fascinating. (Never gonna get over that word.)

These two impulses seem to come from such different directions in my head, that I wouldn't be surprised, if I knew another language, if they managed to speak to me in two different languages. It almost seems to make more sense that way. Maybe because part of my problem is I keep saying, "but why can't one thing be another? This crack thing over here looks much like this meta thing over there, so why isn't this crack meta?"