The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning.
Scene 0: No One Arrives
The screener is complete.
The consent form is signed.
The chair is occupied by absence.
The transcript is already written.
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The mirror is hyperreal.
ACT I: The Focus Group Was a Séance
The voice is borrowed.
The answers are inherited.
The questions are out of range.
The transcript is a false dichotomy.
cppCopyEditQ3. How do you feel about the new packaging?
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The brief is anxious.
ACT II: The Screener as Sacred Text
The criteria are absolute.
The identities are conditional.
The recruitment is a closed loop.
The sample is a mirror image.
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The mirror is impatient.
ACT III: The Debrief That Never Ends
The insight is in a vacuum.
The narrative is recursive.
The conclusion is unchanged.
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action: proceed(plan_original)
The debrief is suspicious.
Interruption: Glitch Feed
The real is inaccessible.
The data is unverified.
The performance is the method.
The deck is incomplete. The client is satisfied.
The mirror is hyperreal.
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ANTI-METHODS APPENDIX
The screener is redacted.
The qualification is uncertain.
The respondent is both eligible and ineligible.
csharpCopyEdit[LOG: “so… why am I here?”]
The questions are reversed.
The answers are conditional.
The researcher is observed.
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/record:true
/output:inverted
The transcript is off balance.
The recording is tonal only.
The language is absent.
The pauses are measured.
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The concept is impossible.
The reaction is genuine.
cppCopyEditconcept: PUSH_DREAMS (valid)
concept: MEMORY_CEREAL (valid)
concept: █████████ (redacted)
The survey is decaying.
The questions are missing.
The dataset is compromised.
makefileCopyEditq05: missing
q07: missing
dataset_integrity: compromised
The answer is a date.
The question is absent.
These are not errors.
These are disruptions.
The researcher is visible inside the mirror.
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