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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Treatise | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 15 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Phone | ||
11 | link: phone | ||
12 | - title: Underwear | ||
13 | link: underwear | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Hardware | ||
16 | link: hardware | ||
17 | - title: Toothpaste | ||
18 | link: toothpaste | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | ```type | ||
22 | TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY | ||
23 | ACTION FROM A DISTANCE" | ||
24 | |||
25 | There is this thing called "spooky | ||
26 | action at a distance." Einstein | ||
27 | mentioned it first I believe. It | ||
28 | is about how two electrons can act | ||
29 | like they are right next to each | ||
30 | other although they are very far | ||
31 | away (lightyears even). For a long | ||
32 | time this puzzled scientists until | ||
33 | someone (not Einstein) figured out | ||
34 | that maybe the universe is a | ||
35 | hologram or projection. So what | ||
36 | appears to be very far apart in | ||
37 | the hologram might actually be | ||
38 | very close in the substrate | ||
39 | reality. | ||
40 | I want to talk about this | ||
41 | effect in literature. In literature | ||
42 | the writer writes words on a | ||
43 | substrate (paper) and later the | ||
44 | reader reads the same words off | ||
45 | the substrate. Although the writer | ||
46 | and reader might be very far apart | ||
47 | from each other in time and space, | ||
48 | they experience the same effect | ||
49 | from reading the words. Even the | ||
50 | writer reading his own words after | ||
51 | he has written them becomes a | ||
52 | reader and feels who he was at | ||
53 | that time, like a ghost. | ||
54 | |||
55 | PROBLEMS: | ||
56 | Maybe the substrate isn't | ||
57 | paper it's what the writing is | ||
58 | about. Where is the hologram? Are | ||
59 | physics and literature comparable? | ||
60 | What if the universe isn't a | ||
61 | hologram what then? | ||
62 | ``` | ||