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-title: Treatise
-genre: prose
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-id: treatise
-toc: "Treatise"
-
-project:
-    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
-    class: paul
-    order: 15
-    next:
-    - title: Phone
-      link: phone
-    - title: Underwear
-      link: underwear
-    prev:
-    - title: Hardware
-      link: hardware
-    - title: Toothpaste
-      link: toothpaste
-...
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-> TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY
-> ACTION FROM A DISTANCE"
->
-> There is this thing called "spooky
-> action at a distance."  Einstein
-> mentioned it first I believe.  It
-> is about how two electrons can act
-> like they are right next to each
-> other although they are very far
-> away (lightyears even).  For a long
-> time this puzzled scientists until
-> someone (not Einstein) figured out
-> that maybe the universe is a
-> hologram or projection.  So what
-> appears to be very far apart in
-> the hologram might actually be
-> very close in the substrate
-> reality.
->
-> I want to talk about this
-> effect in literature.  In literature
-> the writer writes words on a
-> substrate (paper) and later the
-> reader reads the same words off
-> the substrate.  Although the writer
-> and reader might be very far apart
-> from each other in time and space,
-> they experience the same effect
-> from reading the words.  Even the
-> writer reading his own words after
-> he has written them becomes a
-> reader and feels who he was at
-> that time, [like a ghost][].
->
-> PROBLEMS:
->
-> Maybe the substrate isn't
-> paper it's what the writing is
-> about.  [Where is the hologram][]?  Are
-> physics and literature comparable?
-> What if the universe isn't a
-> hologram what then?
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-[like a ghost]: howtoread.html
-[Where is the hologram]: toilet.html