Monday, July 19, 2010

"Creating the Past Experiment. Week One."



"We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home."
Annie Dillard



“She Woke After the Storm Had Spent the Sum of Its Intensity.”
Creating the Past Experiment. Week one.

Leave earlier to pick up Billy in 1996. Do not take Storrow Drive.


“Six - Your Time.”
Creating the Past Experiment. Week one.

It was never documented as to how effective the Situatrium was. Resolution, such as it is, proved as difficult to monitor as ripples along the water.


“Max and David Robinson, 1939.”
Creating the Past Experiment. Week one.

It’s my nature to whisper when shouting might be more effective.


“Nonlocal Coherence.”
Creating the Past Experiment. Week one.

When two or more vortices meet, an interference pattern integrates the strands of information on the particles that created them.

As our lives intersect, the stories we share create a new past.

Next: Maybe The Mechanics of Crepe Myrtle. We'll see.

1 comment:

Jane Schulz said...

Tom, I thought of you this morning when our Sunday School teacher quoted Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."