distance:  in her letter, she wished we lived in the time when the only measure of distance was paces, steps, because then the only way to measure length between two people would be for one of them to walk it, and if they did that there would be no distance at all.  This is before, you see, she even had the idea of walking away.  There is an equation about gravity, attraction, involving the mass of the two objects and the distance between them: as distance increases the force they exert, on one another, becomes less.  What if, though (like the speed of light) the force, gravitational pull, was a constant—then the size of the objects would necessarily increase in proportion to the space between them: this is how I thought it would work with us, we would simply grow, become giants, so we could keep sight of our eyes over even the curvature of earth.  distance.  it should be a word with a hundred syllables, so by the time you had said it you would be somewhere else.  dis—stone statues in a garden of bonsai trees.   opposite ends of an inch worm, no matter how far he walks will never meet, though closeness varies.  rope-swing hanging over rippled creek, distance from the pile of clothes.