Young men fear their minds, Old men fear the world.
–epitaph etched on the tomb of Zhaporozhye
3.29 (VI) (25:10)
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“I
cannot
hide
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God”.
10.11 (I) (23:1)
#369
The One
(Waving the Other aside.) Tell me then, what is a dream?
DHGHOMYO
A thing both existent and non-existent. A thing existing neither in quantity nor spatial continuity, existing perhaps, only in the mind of God. (And this God cannot be quantified.) You might even view dreams as a dihedral angle.
The Other
A dihedral angle!? I would prefer a book that makes men mad.
The One
Or a vector process?
DHGHOMYO
Rather, an undistributed middle.
The One
(Excitedly.) A minor amusement of the gods?
The Other
A contradiction in terms; the unreality principle.
The One
An unfolding story; a traveller’s tale.
DHGHOMYO
The judgement of God.
The Other
Oblique obfuscations.
DHGHOMYO
The object of knowledge.
The One
A language independent of abstract entities; the primary function of understanding, expirations, intuitions.
DHGHOMYO
(With a knowing nod.) Innate knowledge; The Secret of Time; the tomb of the muses.
The One
The subjunctive mood; the ablative case?
DHGHOMYO
A rising tide.
The Other
(Disparagingly.) The null set.
The One
(Ignoring the Other.) The whistle of an arrow! The law of independent trials. (This bewilders even himself.) The state of the art; the coin of the realm.
DHGHOMYO
The driftings of the mind.
The Wyrm
When Urqhard the Wyrm came upon his dreaded discovery of the MEMORY ERASER, all the Myriad Things trembled with fear — and there was no peace to be found upon the whole of the Earth. Everywhere were the laments to be heard, “What is, is; what was, was,” and “All paths lead to ruin!” and the like.
It wasn’t until nine suns had tumbled from the Heavens that Urqhard came to his senses and destroyed his invention by hurling it into the depthless deep.
His explanation for this curious behaviour: “The answer lies hidden within the contours of my mind.”
5.27 (1) (40:16) #661
Zanichelli’s Tale
Zanichelli much to his own surprise, discovered the new element DREAMIUM under the workbench in his garage. The only problem was that no spot on the periodic table could be found for it.
Accordingly, an entirely new one (the now-famed Dreamtable) was constructed.
And it was then that it came to the public’s attention that the search for a whole new set of elements had barely begun.
Before long it seemed as if every man, woman & child on the planet had joined in the hunt (the quick success of the ensuing search can be laid directly to this fact).
Also, the new elements would seem to surface in the most ordinary of places: TRUTHIUM in a shoebox, MIRTHIUM under a mushroom, PAXIUM in a baby’s crib, and MYTHIUM in the web of a spider.
Why these elements failed to surface until the time of Zanichelli’s discovery is a question that has never scientifically been resolved.
The popular mind, however has no such qualms. Zanichelli, it reasons, simply caught luck by the hair.
4.1 (IV) (18:4) #284
The Metafictionist 