For the last few weeks I have talked a great deal about mechanisms and loops. I describe how the closed system worked. I describe the tension–relief loop with alcohol. I describe the loyalty mechanism that keeps Eliasz on the other side of the wall. And suddenly I stop on this thought. If I got out of one mechanism and am now describing how it worked — that does not mean I am not currently operating inside some other one. Breaking one loop does not produce an exit from loops as such. It produces the activation of another.
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