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---
title: Treatise
genre: prose
project:
title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
css: paul
order: 15
next:
- title: Phone
link: phone
- title: Underwear
link: underwear
previous:
- title: Hardware
link: hardware
- title: Toothpaste
link: toothpaste
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```type
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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