Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Drinks and T.P. @ 11

The multiverse expands with every decision made. It is this fact that makes time travel extremely difficult for finding any particular destination. Most travelers, for this reason fly blind, randomly landing, looking, and generally mucking up temporal harmony.

Most time travelers consider themselves "cowboys" but in truth they are really nothing more than cosmic hobos. A most dangerous situation, although rare, occurs when agendas creep into the mix. This unfortunate event is exactly what happened. Among the travelers two conflicting schools of thought emerged. One group believed that travel should be regulated, cataloged and chronicled. The others didn’t want to be bogged down in anymore temporal policy, “T.P.” and temporal paperwork, confusingly also “T.P.”. It was the freedom they enjoyed; it was about the journey. The others desired the comfort and the confirmation which one can only find in an absolute destination.

There exists, only one place that a decision like this could, and finally would, be made. It was deep in exact centers of the Eleventh Dimension. Yes, the writer means “centers”. This anomaly occurs between two matching holes found precisely at the center of the eleventh dimension. A concept so elusive that the greatest physicists and philosophers could only describe it as sort of similar to a dimensional sheet with two eye holes cut out like a poor kid’s ghost costume on Halloween.

Here, at “11”, even time had no business. Remote and safe from the expansion of the multiverse, this interesting place where only shadow and thought existed and became one. It also became the home and watering hole of all temporal policy decisions. The “11 bar” is where temporal hobos met, drank, and set policy. It was like Washington, only creepier, and things really, really, really got done.

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Blogger Margaret Holt said...

Ithaca
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the angry Poseidon -- do not fear them:
You will never find such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not set them up before you.

Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.

Always keep Ithaca in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would have never set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1911)

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