Echolalia

Book 113

A SOLUTION TO PENROSE’S COSMIC CENSORSHIP HYPOTHESIS
(A singularity miniature reflective matrix)

During my time in university I came across a theory proposed by Roger Penrose about the nature of a singularity within a black hole. According to Penrose one would never be able to see a singularity and more over part of the reason for this is because within such a structure the laws and rules which govern our universe would break down.
A singularity, according to this model could not be viewed because its effects upon regular space-time would be so disorienting, so warped that the laws of physics, time, etc, by which we exist could not function. (I am purposely ignoring the variation between weak and strong hypotheses as they are not relevant to my point.)
So how does one see what is literally unseeable? The theory I came up with involved another principle, the concept of quantum entanglement. Simply put quantum entanglement states that all things, all matter in the universe is connected irrespective of distance. So what if one could create a world, or if there was a world connected to a singularity.
Now I am neither a mathematician or a scientist; as far as I’m concerned this idea makes better science fiction than science fact but it is still interesting enough to add as an idea. Imagine two worlds, one existing within or near a singularity and one in orbit about the black hole where the singularity lay.
Now, if both worlds were connected via this method of entanglement one need not see inside to understand what’s going on within the singularity, one need only view the reflection of the planet outside the black hole. And I am arguing that the planet would be near the black hole not because the distance is relevant but only because it is more convenient for the theory, and because it makes a more concise model to help in understanding the factors involved.
Now, one might argue that this does not help demonstrate what is going on within the singularity; after all I am arguing two planets, and most would consider the idea of a planet inside a black hole an impossibility. But when I say planet I am not referring to a physical object but more to a section or subsection of the singularity itself.
Just as the moon is not the earth it is still caught in earth’s orbit and for all intents and purposes forms a series of gravitational and luminescent properties that affect life on earth. Eliminate the moon and you alter the parameters. So now imagine a singularity, which is already a point where no laws of physics or existence apply. Is it not possible that even a small “planet” or moon or piece of this would provide evidence of its totality, much as knowing the effects of the moon on the earth can allow one to guess from another planet the overall location, size, and even composition of earth itself.
But, what if Penrose is right and one cannot gain any knowledge even despite the evidence existing outside of the event horizon? Well considering that there is no way to know until or unless such an insanely unlikely thing happens this is all just speculation anyway and so I have no problem being wrong. It would still make a good idea for a poetic work though. April 19-21/11.

AN INFINITE NUMBER OF HEAVENS,
AN INFINITE NUMBER OF HELLS

Prologue

Good day to all the world, a faint amen.
If you can’t go one way go another then.

Part I.

1) Before Satan was a gleam in God’s bright
eye the sun died in her tarnished armour.

2) A claw of the kodiak bear embedded in
the bark of a winter drenched oak tree.

3) Life is bathed in winter now
and then, neath a dead black star.

4) The sky opened up neath the ruins
of copper as life unseats itself of us.

5) The lens of perception opened wide
at its widest point for me.

6) A painting is not a poem, a poem is
not an opera, an opera is not a song.

7) It’s quite easy to want something if you
don’t have to do a damned thing with it.

8) My secret country of autumn crystal
leaves and crimson fire in her steps, my dawn.

9) An inherent order is always
nestled within an inherent chaos.

10) The lens of experience opened wide to
me in its well and self appointed time, alone.

11) Along the path we did not intend to make, we
did not take, which conceals itself in us most of all.

12) With the wealth of paper that I now
have the novel takes form, unveils.

13) Unseen roads that don’t go anywhere at all;
perception of time is never correct, period.

14) Fate, the clothing by which it
conceals itself most of all; fate.

15) Traitors in a land no more; greensward,
lord of the manor, the execution block.

16) Ironies abound in that statement
of ours, swallowing insanity’s pills.

17) The day’s grey and I feel
grey as well my friend.

18) Faith rots and from it’s
death Rome is eternally fed.

19) When you get itching of having it costs
you but what you had you had anyway.

20) In jungles of stone neath black skies opened
up to me alone unveiled of their eternities themselves.

21) I dared to do whatever I wanted and I
wanted to do it now, or was it then I wonder?

22) And Kullervo was a man like I am, impotent rage
and curses and words beyond his keen or my understanding.

23) A desolate road, a bleak
road going nowhere at all.

24) And Inliarda whispering to me
that I am past saving now.

25) “That idiot’s smarter than he looks”
some fool once said about me.

26) Angelica whispers that
I am past saving now.

27) The totality of time unravels
and the ecology of madness is born.

28) Suicide taken by itself is not a sin, all
actions leading up to it become a sin themselves.

29) Inherent flaws in the system;
this can’t end well.

30) Cliff-swallow promises of wings and
crimson eyes and crooked, broken songs.

31) The killer in the home;
Torquemada staring in a mirror.

32) In Manticora Lothropa has laid his
skin and bones scattered upon the sands.

33) Can’t rush myself to death
to do it anymore.

Part II.

1) I have no future nor into
the past I tread, alone.

2) I walked on the very
surface of your thoughts.

3) A man with nine lives owning none;
himself an immortal slave to every dying one.

4) Between Austerlitz and Auschwitz is a few
lines of blood, some dates, and nothing more.

5) A mistake on history; all
things happening all at once.

6) I can remember who I was
before I saw Medusa’s stare.

7) Torquemada impaled heretics; I feel
the smoke, the spears, the memories.

8) The Jalidsai would pursue when the creature
was in pain; they couldn’t any other way.

9) Gamoj, a desert world and the Gimmaron in their skins
of stone, wise sentinels and counselors first encountered.

10) The Jalidsai had claws and eyes blind and in
the forests we sang to them our languages.

11) The Gimmaron like pillars, like obelisks we carried,
wise sentinels, listening to the songs of wind, of sand.

12) I am standing on a street corner as
Gavrilo Princip points his gun and fires.

13) Aithrana is writing a poem, and
outside I see the ziggurats of Akkadia.

14) And all mourned the death of the man
created by the author while the author’s death
they all forgot in turn.

15) At moments of clarity the ship is
restored to me and I am as I was before.

16) And I can speak other languages and imagine
lives that I never have imagined before.

17) General Cliffswoyth and we are going
over the top, the trenches, the mud, the guns.

18) I see an obelisk born on sand
the colour of malachite roses.

19) I imagine a world the colour of malachite,
darker shades the ocean, lighter shades the ground.

20) The city below the stairs on an Earth as
the sun flares into nothingness and is no more.

21) Torquemada is on the rack
and I have put him there.

22) Where names are lost
new names now are found.

23) My face, in the mirror it is not
mine, nor yours, nor hers, but theirs.

24) Medusa stares, roars in my face,
but I watch her turn to stone instead.

25) At once I stand before I was, I am,
and after I am gone, yet I still am.

26) Manticora opens up to me and the jungles
of Manticora where Lothropa my mother is
not yet born.

27) Next door to dying water burns and
crucified my blind eyes see what is unseen.

28) The composite intelligence of the Rh’wagathra,
a trillion minds as one; how small they all seem now.

29) I have seen the stars unfold and
flatten to dust and less than dust.

30) River of light and shadow, a nile sojourning
between a sunless world and a sun-starved eternity.

31) I stand between all things
and all things about me turn.

32) I stand between all things
and become all things in turn.

33) A friend is not a friend if you
have to pay for the privilege then.

Part III.

1) In the Vornax galaxy we beheld
a planet orbiting a black hole.

2) The world held infinite space and
infinite mass. It was tied to a singularity.

3) Time would backwards then
forward again, then sideways.

4) We sent a probe, and my second officer,
reviewing the data began to speak in tongues.

5) He began to write non sequiturs
like he was a babbling fool.

6) Someone then spoke, using
the probe, to communicate to us.

7) No one expected to find
life on a dead world.

8) At once there are no cities;
at once cities appeared.

9) At once life was alien there; at once
we’d known such life for uncounted centuries.

10) The first officer continued to write
words that made no sense save to those
upon the world below.

11) We later learned they had unknowingly
infected him with a portion of themselves.

12) There is a legend or myth seldom told now
which we later learned; the story of Medusa.

13) To see Medusa one would be turned to
stone; only her reflection was safe to view.

14) The world below was a reflection, reflection
of a world connected to the singularity itself.

15) Time, the totality of time unveiled
and unraveled in that place.

16) I say cities but that was a mirage;
they hung in the sky below the ground.

17) And the creatures there seemed all things at once,
and time slowed and sped up til we could talk as one.

18) Within the singularity they lived. A whole
realm condensed and expanded there.

19) And we could move through space but they through
time, stranded on two worlds, in darkness gleaming.

20) Gravity unburdened itself of gravity and they walked
on air, flew when flinging themselves to the ground.

21) No words described them though some tried, but
none could, no not even their reflections satisfied.

22) The third officer we left behind to be tended
by the creatures only she best understood.

23) Darkness there but no one was blind and
the world supported life if they willed it so.

24) Angelica said leaving him behind was a mistake
but I disagreed; only they could help him now.

25) And ghosts were there, for even dead such being
still lived and at the point of death they but gained the
greater control.

26) For what is life if one can go back, go forward,
go sideways, and meet oneself a trillion times or more?

27) I imagine winter snows and cliff swallows and
Torquemada for him to cling to as talismans.

28) And Angelica whispers of a road for
him to walk on, know, to be healed by.

29) I tossed a coin and tried to imagine all the ways
that it could fall on the world below, but couldn’t.

30) Before she is sent down I slip in her hand a
smoothed piece of malachite, an egg, or a sphere.

31) A sphere of malachite; how would he
interpret such a splinter of our home as that?

32) I wonder how long til he is
healed, but what is time to them?

33) I will come back in forty days for my friend.
I had almost forgotten his name is Iswell Shanix.

Part IV.

1) A world where sex is not and a thousand genders
all at once and one man lost amid the multitude.

2) And in the sky he is there on floating continents and
he is there in cities beneath the ground simultaneously.

3) And the beings who passed as reflections through the
infinite world began to put the man back together again.

4) An agate rose-coloured sky came into view
one day then departed just as suddenly.
5) And there couldn’t be a day for there
was no sun nor even a single star.

6) And the sky held no clouds, no atmosphere at all,
yet there the sky stood, nor nakedly clothed at all.

7) And pride has reached their head, and lust, and
unteaching him they teach themselves the more.

8) And they began to give themselves a name,
and they began to name everything in turn.

9) Suddenly the blackness was called “sky.”

10) Suddenly a single being called himself something
different from the others, and gave himself a gender.

11) And for the first time ever two came together and
a child was born, already ancient though finally born.

12) And the story began and the story started
all over again, but Shanix was writing now.

13) And when ghosts died they went into the darkening
ground never to rise again but hope instead for an
afterlife of sorts.

14) And if no afterlife then the memory of them
were left, and for the first time grief entered the world.

15) Time at once ticked at a steady pace and Shanix
dreamed malachite dreams which gained their flesh
and blood.

16) And he stood and stared at himself coming together
piece by piece, mirror murdered by itself, a subtle suicide
of being.

17) And how young would you like to
be if your first day never came to end?

18) And suddenly there were mythologies and the
fear began that how one died affected their afterlife.

19) And because time still moved in concert with
the mind suddenly Shanix saw the afterlives of them.

20) He saw that those who died violently their
tattered bodies they regained, all tattered still.

21) And they who died in sleep in sleep they spent
eternity and their dreams all begat eternities themselves.

22) And they who died in hate to the black sun
they turned, devoured and were no more.

23) And ghosts who died were born
again, all returning whence they came.

24) And when Shanix died to hell he turned
but barred from hell’s entering at the gates.

25) And heaven’s doors all closed were and
the afterlives closed from him they were.

26) And dead he was put together, only to be taken
apart and in the womb of the black sun he burned.

27) He was born in the void
and caught by a ship passing by.

28) He was restored and remade and turned
homeward all his steps now turned.

29) Forty days were up and eternity broke down,
collapsed and petal-wise it opened all again.

30) The clocks ticked down, then stopped,
then started their own beating all over again.

31) “I have passed beyond
the thousand gates,” he said.

32) “I have seen the heart
of the black sun,” he cried.

33) “I am come home,” he heard
himself whisper all to them.

Part V.

1) A dissertation on the singularity, a practical
guide to eternity and infinity themselves.

2) All things tangled in the void,
the black sun, the two worlds.

3) They have an ecology of
madness, a place of miracles.

4) The only way to know, beyond the way
I have previously described; insanity’s pills.

5) The drug is not easy to find; it can only be
found by synthesizing seconds between seconds
at time’s end.

6) Then and only then can you enter the second world
and talk with them without being compromised.

7) In Manticora scientists gather to make
first contact for the first time with them.

8) They prepare and from there go into shadow, final
shadow between time’s beginning and time’s absence.

9) We stepped from Braxidia, from Byraxidia,
and stepped ‘pon the final shadow.

10) They were waiting there, had
been waiting there all along.

11) Dr. Kenkeknem spoke to the great lumbering titans
and they answered him the questions of his heart.

12) Dr. Sunec learned of their almost finite physiology,
her mind untainted by the thoughts of them.

13) The representative of the Cts’wen Confederacy asked
the meaning of causality and he was answered and they
answered him.

14) And Angelica Speqmic whispered to the wind
about her lost friend and he appeared again

15) For every law, even those of motion have their
inherent flaws in the final shadow of the universe.

16) Amid the absence of time much was learned and
bringing back Shanix, or his shadow, much unlearned.

17) They crossed a country of malachite trees where
Shanix had given birth to them, in Manticora.

18) Gasaj the poet was translating the verses of Aithrana
who died a billion years before, in Manticora.

19) Setse7 met Shanix brought from final shadow and
introduced him to Shanix, brought from final shadow,
in Manticora.

20) Setse7 flipped a coin and let it hit the ground
and it did not land as he had once expected it to land.

21) Angelica watched Shanix play a game against
himself and win or lose it was never the same to them.

22) Each move was always the same but
never the same, and malachite trees grew.

23) Lothropa wondered who her son now was, and walking
between the trees she felt she was in a dream of theirs.

24) The voyage into the singularity of a dead star was
postponed when the ship emerged before it had even left.

25) It came from the black sun but no one had sent it
yet. And Shanix explained that they were coming.

26) Kzathus was reading The Knights of Remler
when he saw himself dissolve and become her.

27) Kzathus watched Gasaj grow arms and legs
from stone, grow bones, grow eyes, grow tongue.

28) Angelica was reduced to a whisper, her
flesh reduced to the sound of her own voice.

29) Shanix was remembering Torquemada impaled
and scattered like pages of a burnt bible on the ground,
on the sand.

30) There was terror in the language of the stars.

31) They were coming, unknowing how, coming
to meet the man who untaught them so much.

32) They had new questions yet to ask, new
worlds yet to understand as never before.

33) For obscured where they had been the scientists
provoked much thought in them, and they had perhaps
been wrong.

Part VI.

1) Some pursue eternity, infinity for wealth,
others for fame, still others just to know.

2) Imagine the laws of reality reversed,
kinetic, thermal, gravity and time.

3) Imagine then a man lost in such a space,
on such a world, if only for a moment.

4) Why everything he’d say would sound deranged,
unstuck by space, by time, by fact, by cause.

5) But would he not teach they who lived there
his own mind, his own world and its laws?

6) And if he were caught and taken back would not
eternity itself and they who dwelled within follow
him in turn?

7) And all those scattered world, Gamoj, Manticora,
Earth, what fate would they now have governed by
other, timeless laws?

8) If one thousand cats in hell felt the touch of heaven
would they scar paradise or the realm from whence they
came?

9) If a dream were given skin all of a sudden would then
the dreamer enter into shadow, and become shadow in turn?

10) In a world where politics is not what happens
when humanity is governed by the law of power over all?

11) What happens if one spends existence neath
a set of rules suddenly dissolved and rent asunder?

12) And so they came out from out the shadow of the black
sun, and humanity taught them all they sought to know.

13) And the Gimmaron instructed them and the
trees of malachite etched runic geometry into their skin.

14) The malachite trees sang to them songs without
tongue, without mouths, and they saw without eyes.

15) Etched runic signs carved by a kodiak bear and
winter clothed herself in summertime, in Manticora.

16) And I have heard it said that when they came
and asked the questions that none could answer them.

17) None could answer satisfactorily.
How can order ever answer chaos?

18) Iswell Shanix alone answered them, both of him,
though the answers made no sense to anyone but them.

19) There is a place, the pool of Inliarda
Inmdlyryn where all things dissolve as one.

20) It lay on a world the colour of malachite
between the waking and the dream.

21) There all truths are answered, there
and there alone true communion is.

22) And I have heard it said and I have seen it
so that dreams reflect a truth reality does not.

23) The beast of time, the maw of time, the law
of everything; at this pool they are connected.

24) Between the dead sun and the living,
thought alone sustains the universe.

25) How many ways can one imagine a coin falling
to the ground; which side will face you, how many
trillions of faces?

26) And the ship reached Earth,
and the black sun too.

27) And perhaps in Manticora the black sun peered
in, and perhaps Manticora or Earth was where they
came from.

28) Or perhaps they came simply
from the void, as all life does in time.

29) And in one history Earth, Gamoj, Manticora
became the heart of a new black sun.

30) But in another history it never happened
at all, nor did Shanix learn anything at all.

31) But here they sought their answers, received them
and were satisfied, and turning back they understood.

32) There was a final logic to their thoughts
that we at last and finally understood.

33) Communion in the black, in the final
shadow of the pool, communion.

Epilogue

If you can’t go one way go another then.
Good day to all the world, a faint amen. April 20-25/11.

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