theduckwasblind is the pseudonym of the writer Joseph Metzger, based in Springfield, Massachusetts.¹ Metzger contributed the text The First Time I Observed Myself Observing Something to Tickle Lit Issue 3, themed around aberration. Tickle Lit is a quarterly literary publication released as NFTs on low-carbon blockchains and curated by Johnny Dean Mann and Jess Britton.²