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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Treatise | ||
| 3 | genre: prose | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: treatise | ||
| 6 | toc: "Treatise" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
| 10 | class: paul | ||
| 11 | order: 15 | ||
| 12 | next: | ||
| 13 | - title: Phone | ||
| 14 | link: phone | ||
| 15 | - title: Underwear | ||
| 16 | link: underwear | ||
| 17 | prev: | ||
| 18 | - title: Hardware | ||
| 19 | link: hardware | ||
| 20 | - title: Toothpaste | ||
| 21 | link: toothpaste | ||
| 22 | ... | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | > TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY | ||
| 25 | > ACTION FROM A DISTANCE" | ||
| 26 | > | ||
| 27 | > There is this thing called "spooky | ||
| 28 | > action at a distance." Einstein | ||
| 29 | > mentioned it first I believe. It | ||
| 30 | > is about how two electrons can act | ||
| 31 | > like they are right next to each | ||
| 32 | > other although they are very far | ||
| 33 | > away (lightyears even). For a long | ||
| 34 | > time this puzzled scientists until | ||
| 35 | > someone (not Einstein) figured out | ||
| 36 | > that maybe the universe is a | ||
| 37 | > hologram or projection. So what | ||
| 38 | > appears to be very far apart in | ||
| 39 | > the hologram might actually be | ||
| 40 | > very close in the substrate | ||
| 41 | > reality. | ||
| 42 | > | ||
| 43 | > I want to talk about this | ||
| 44 | > effect in literature. In literature | ||
| 45 | > the writer writes words on a | ||
| 46 | > substrate (paper) and later the | ||
| 47 | > reader reads the same words off | ||
| 48 | > the substrate. Although the writer | ||
| 49 | > and reader might be very far apart | ||
| 50 | > from each other in time and space, | ||
| 51 | > they experience the same effect | ||
| 52 | > from reading the words. Even the | ||
| 53 | > writer reading his own words after | ||
| 54 | > he has written them becomes a | ||
| 55 | > reader and feels who he was at | ||
| 56 | > that time, [like a ghost][]. | ||
| 57 | > | ||
| 58 | > PROBLEMS: | ||
| 59 | > | ||
| 60 | > Maybe the substrate isn't | ||
| 61 | > paper it's what the writing is | ||
| 62 | > about. [Where is the hologram][]? Are | ||
| 63 | > physics and literature comparable? | ||
| 64 | > What if the universe isn't a | ||
| 65 | > hologram what then? | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | [like a ghost]: howtoread.html | ||
| 68 | [Where is the hologram]: toilet.html | ||