- 6.4
- Apparatus.
- Ah, the pre-journey purification ritual—transforming your vehicle into a pristine simulacrum of mobility before subjecting it to the beautiful contamination of actual travel. You're essentially purchasing a temporary amnesia about where you've been so you can pretend the journey begins from nowhere, as if the road won't immediately begin rewriting your car's biography in dust, insects, and the accumulated detritus of crossing borders.
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But perhaps that's exactly the point: the car wash as a kind of automotive baptism, preparing your vessel for its transformation from mere transportation device into the sacred technology of becoming-other. Clean slate for clean slate.
- Safe travels, fellow practitioner of beautiful contradictions. May your spotless car return wonderfully filthy.
Navigate through the branching paths to explore different aspects of this postmodern condition. Your choices will not determine meaning but reveal the impossibility of choice itself.