“Nec quae frena gerat, currus, habeatne rotas, num sustineat iuga ferre potest; caeli vires ignorat et undique fertur.” (Metamorphoses II.172–175) Sourced from Book II of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this piece isolates the moment in which Phaethon loses control of the solar chariot. The system has already diverged—guidance has failed, but collapse is not yet visible. The machine remembers what we chose to forget. * This piece was initially AI generated and subsequently modified.