“To save the world, one must first invent the universe.” Sarl Cagan
TBD - Space where two (or more) players can converse regarding the great sea of objects (sand, marbles, beanie babies, boogers, delicious pennies, soggy buttons, etc.) - shortly after an unveiling
The character (1) who is new to the sea of things embodies awe before finally smashing the experience into the living words that escape their lips and explode in the brain of the recipient who has seen the sea before them before (2).
1
They’re beautiful!
2
I agree, even if they were impossible to see.
1
You cannot see them?
2
Nor can I not see them.
1
Such unseeing sightings might appear unseemly to someone more straightforward.
2
If I were in the desert looking,
I could see only sand and sky
The sky was everything which wasn’t desert,
The desert was mostly what there was,
I would see little difference between what is before us
and what I imagine being lost in an endless sea of sand would be like.
1
What strange lenses have you fastened to that face of yours
that you could not see what you can’t not see.
2
These are like the cloud creature which dances strangely in the sky.
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I am told it is made of so many starlings being close and far and close and yes,
I see so many but I also see so few.
Do I see 100 of a singular bird or do I see 100 singular birds?
1
Like a play where it’s not the actors but the imaginations of so many seated together that makes a play.
2
Like seeing a heap of sand where each piece could be removed without not making it a heap and none of them atop another will likewise never make the heap again.
1
Some of them say that, you know.
2
What? A sandy heap of worlds?
1
Of universes, each one with heaps of worlds.
2
Heaps of worlds, some of which will have heaps of sand.
1
If it is a heapless world, one more grain would do no harm.
2
And if it is heaped with those crunchy universes grinding, popping, rolling on the teeth as you try to chew them in piece
1
But everyone is looking at you eat and eat the universes
2
Universes filled with you, eating universes
In some of which you are eating again and being eaten.
There are an infinite number of universes that have you being eaten while you eat sand. What are the odds you aren’t in one now?
1
There are an infinite number of different types of infinite other things that can happen to universes.
2
We are going to get so sick of infinity.
1
Why does everything have to go on?
2
And on
1
And on
2
And on
1
And on
2
And on
1
And beneath that endless awning we have to again
2
And again
1
And again invoke the i-word.