QUOTE: "THE MIND INSIDE THE WORLD" FROM THE NOVEL PARADOX OF THE LOCUS (A.GLASS 2016)

 

"...she recollects an image of two lovers fucking inside a Bangkok apartment, their heaving and frantic sex caught on a viewing portal and beamed onto the global data-sync networks, just before a meteorite hit the city, a small one, but big enough to destroy a large portion of the Thai capital. Its destruction of the vastly populated apartment buildings, killing hundreds of people. In an instant, in that moment of pleasure, there is a bright flash seen from the outside, from the apartment windows. Like the sun exploded. Then nothing, the footage goes blank. But what resonates in Dilem's thoughts of those reflected images replaying in her mind, was the urgency, the intensity of their love making. They didn't stop for the end of the world. Aroused by the apocalyptic imagery, sex before the death. In her final moments she begins to grind harder. “Fuck that's it, I'm...oh fuck!” Her climax is absolute, clinging onto her lover, she yells out. A white flash is seen from the outside, as the night-sky lights up, brighter than a thousand suns, her orgasm within an instant of obliteration from the cosmos. She continues to revel in bliss. Her lover thrusts several more times, a crushing orgasm hits him as he grunts, releasing his load, the tension and release of a pulsating throb that has reached its crescendo. Pulling out a still ejaculating penis, he sprays the remnants of seed over Dilem's stomach and breasts, her legs still spread, the man's head drops down, grasping his strained penis he slowly pumps the last segments of seminal fluid from its engorged head. A single glistening droplet falls, resting atop of her clitoris. He then slumps to her side breathing heavily. Dilem's eyes are still shut, she exhales opening them looking at the darkened room from within her apartment. There is resurrection from the fantasy of a cosmic death, moments before bliss. The city and the building she lives in still stands.

“I tell you...the trick works,” the man says slowly getting up. Dilem looks at her semen splattered belly and breasts, lifting her self up.

“Which is?” She asks, looking in the direction of the bathroom.

The man slides on his underwear, reaching across to the trousers lying in crumbled heap on the ground. “Don't fuck for at least a month, save it, build it up...Then, bang! You go for it!”

Dilem turns away, rolling her eyes. “Works for you does it?...” She replies in a sarcastic manner. “...I'm going to have a shower.”

“Alright, I gotta go...” Checking his data-sync he turns and smiles at Dilem, placing his shirt on. “...See you later.”

“Ok,” Dilem says, knowing there won't be a later. This onetime lover is married, a convenience in its interlude is all but a moment in time. Nothing more, nothing less. The man leaves.

Later that night after showering and changing into her gym wear, Katelyn Dilem steps onto her moto-ascent trakton. An exercise device the simulates climbing a cliff-face. A three dimensional image is projected in-front of her, rendered perfectly to represent a cliff. She begins the simulation. Reaching with her hands as though she is climbing, the exo-mechanics assert the pressure and stability in-line with the artificial reality. She decides to split the image to the network channels. By a random choice she chooses the science and philosophy station, displayed in-front of her is a panel discussion.

“...so Professor Krulaz, is reality warped?” The host of the show asks. An older man leans forward, smiling, about to answer the question.

Dilem pauses from doing her exercises. Looking at the familiar face in front of her. “That's my neighbor,” she says to her self.

“Yes, Einstein's general relativity precisely determines that Space time is warped in the sense, objects, such as large planets create a frame-drag which also bends light and of course this attributes to time dilation. In its early stages of a theory the calculations reconciled, it was only later on in history we were able to test and measure the distortion of Space-time. What we take for granted, as you said, from a different perceptive, reality would appear warped, which relativity predicts. In saying that, relativity never reconciled with quantum physics.”

“From your new studies you suggest the universe is hollow, porous.”

“As we have discussed reality is warped and our perception of actuality in Space-time has been calculated beautifully by Einstein's General Relativity. But, to look at the quantum physics of a universe, we see that it holds an almost infinite network of distorted orientations. You discover that Space-time and relativity is only the tip of the iceberg. That's what is observable to us. But what lies underneath, is vastly more strange, it is a mesh of pathways and interconnections.”

“Alien life?” The hosts asks, as the rest of the guests look intently towards Professor Krulaz.

“We could be in this Universe with no intelligent life apart from us, living on the Earth. I don't believe that is the case. It is just that what we are searching for, in our current understanding of life within our reality, will be something we may not be able to comprehend. But we live in a Universe made up of endless possibilities. What is unusual to us, is normal to others. I am very optimistic.”

“Ok, so life exists or intelligent alien life, but...correct me if I am wrong Professor...you have also written that it may also not be in this Universal concept that we have 'preconceived'.”

Professor Krulaz smiles leaning back in his chair. “Correct...We need to re-conceive our existence within the Cosmos. Einstein moved us closer to achieve that, over two hundred years ago with the General Theory of Relativity. Brilliant and divine in its revelation. But limited. What is happening now, is the science of defining human existence...”

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PARADOX OF THE LOCUS 

(A.Glass 2016)