Persona Non Propria

Persona Non Propria

motes, vol. 1

the adverb ‘mad’, dreaming of buildings and a gavel, going to kokomo, and chance in fiction

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Clancy Steadwell
Oct 04, 2026
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welcome to motes, little bits of writing I’d rather put in a post than your Notes feed. they’re not Notes. they’re motes.

In middle school I moved to a new place and went to school and everything was ‘mad’. Or everything was modified as ‘mad’.

Not ‘mad’ like British ‘mad’, like lunacy, but as far as I could tell, this modifier simply meant ‘very,’ which w…

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