<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>Initial conditions | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> <script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> </head> <body id="initial-conditions" class="stark"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Initial conditions</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"> <p><span class="line">There is a theory which states the Universe</span><span class="line">if it began with the same initial conditions</span><span class="line">( <a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">same gravity</a> same strong weak nuclear force same</span><span class="line">size and shape ) would unfold in exactly</span><span class="line">the way it has : with the same planets <a href="big-dipper.html">orbiting suns</a></span><span class="line">same people making same mistakes : like this morning</span></p> <p><span class="line">( It’s actually past two but I will call it <a href="plant.html">morning</a> )</span><span class="line">while turning on the shower : I as the Universe</span><span class="line">intended ( although I was expecting the heat of suns )</span><span class="line"><a href="one-hundred-lines.html">had the ice of inner space</a> : those pre existing conditions</span><span class="line">before the Big Bang : the shower was almost exactly</span><span class="line">freezing for a split second : every day it’s the same :</span></p> <p><span class="line"><a href="hard-game.html">I turn on the tap</a> hop in pull the knob have the same</span><span class="line">moment of utter panic then pain then a relaxing morning</span><span class="line">shower where I spend between five to ten ( I’m not sure exactly )</span><span class="line">minutes : I have good thoughts : <a href="howtoread.html">this poem about the Universe</a></span><span class="line">for example : I had the idea while I was conditioning</span><span class="line">my hair : it came to me like accidentally looking at the sun :</span></p> <p><span class="line">the pain and the wonder that something as large as suns</span><span class="line">could appear so small and yet so hot all at the same</span><span class="line">time : so hot in the summer we require air conditioning</span><span class="line">( although now in the winter it’s cold in the morning )</span><span class="line">and I can’t wait to hop in the shower that tiny universe</span><span class="line">of water and steam and soap and <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">body</a> : that and only that exactly</span></p> <p><span class="line">or rather exclusively ( it’s hard to get the words exactly</span><span class="line">right : the meanings bleed into each other like the sun’s</span><span class="line">shadows on pavement ) ready for me to <a href="dream.html">dream</a> another universe</span><span class="line">into it on top of it again and again until they all look the same :</span><span class="line">I can’t tell whether it’s my morning or the shower’s morning</span><span class="line">or where I put the conditioner or what the initial conditions</span></p> <p><span class="line">could have been that decided I would misplace my conditioner</span><span class="line">today : and why and how much planning was involved exactly</span><span class="line">that would cause so far down the production line of this morning</span><span class="line">: me to <a href="stump.html">wake up so long after the rising</a> of the sun</span><span class="line">: me to stay inside all day even after showering to look at the same</span><span class="line"><a href="telemarketer.html">computer screen</a> : to give up the actual universe to the universe</span></p> <p><span class="line">in there with its conditions : where <a href="reports.html">the screen serves</a> as sickly sun :</span><span class="line">where there is apparently exactly what I need : no more : the same</span><span class="line">three sites I visited this morning comprising my entire Universe</span></p> </section> </article> <a id="textlink" title="Source file" href="text/initial-conditions.txt">¶</a> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/initial-conditions.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> φ </a> <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> </div> <a class="prevlink" href="i-think-its-you.html" 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