Chapter 14.
Emptiness.
14.1
Subsequence.
One day, at the end of summer, Lulu unexpectedly came to visit me.
I didn't expect to see her.
Moreover, I had important things to do.
My house has always been a mess.
But now, what was happening in my house, defies description.
I pulled out all my equipment, which has been a faithful companion on my countless expeditions.
So, this time I was silently and intently packing another bag.
Lulu frowned for a long time, and then, scowling and plucking up courage, asked why all this?
I was not going to explain anything to her, as it was a special case, and I was not going to tell her about my plans in any way.
But then, she became so despondent, that I felt guilty.
For many years we have solved the most varied mysteries together, having visited the most mysterious and dangerous places.
I invited her to the table, where I was brewing tea.
I gathered my thoughts, to explain everything as briefly, as possible.
- You know, I began
- From time to time I remember our past life and many secrets, that we were allowed to touch.
- Of course, we will meet with some of them many times. We will continue to work on many of them.
- There is one secret left, which is a gem, perhaps one of the most inaccessible and difficult on the entire list.
- What list? Lulu exclaimed with amazement in her eyes.
- You know, there is a list of secrets, that are composed in such a way, that they are revealed in a strictly defined order, I replied.
- Without solving the previous one, it is impossible to approach the next.
- But if one has opened to you, then the next ones open like petals in flowers.
- This greatest riddle, perhaps, can be safely put two steps from the top of the list.
- Two steps from the top ?? exclaimed Lulu.
- What are the remaining two then ???
- I can't even imagine !! My head is spinning.
“The remaining two mysteries are such, that one of them cannot be understood by our minds.
- And the last one, the one at the very top, is impossible even to formulate.
- And it will remain so forever, because it is impossible to unravel all the secrets and it is not necessary.
- Our Mind will remain without work.
- Life without mysteries is boring.
- Recently, I noticed, that truly significant and interesting secrets can be counted on the fingers of my hands. Therefore, each of them must be treated with respect.
- So, let's get back to our secret, where we can try to do something, to touch it.
- To solve this puzzle, it is impossible to build any theory.
- No laws and formulas work there.
- Since this secret leaves no witnesses, it is impossible to test it in practice, experimentally. What the deceitful alchemists of our day love to talk about.
- This is an eternal impasse.
- But from every seemingly insoluble situation, you can find a way out.
“Do you remember, I told you a lot about my friend, the ancient keeper of ancient manuscripts in the old library?
- Of course! exclaimed Lulu.
- I constantly thought about her words, which she said to me at our last meeting.
“She said, that if I want to know how the Universe came into being, I must find out how it disappeared.
- How the Universe disappears, this is the last secret, the logical completion of the chain of secrets available to us, I said bitterly.
14.2
The Traveler's Paradox.
While Lulu and I were drinking tea, our friend, the cat Marquis, came to visit.
- I poured tea for the Marquis and the three of us settled down comfortably at the kitchen table.
And I continued.
- I was desperately looking for a fulcrum, how to get closer to the decision, from what to push off.
- I often recalled that recent meeting with a new friend, the jester of our king.
- I was haunted by the thought about the speed of light as the main indicator of the boundaries of our perception, our world.
- I began to twist the numbers in my head, imagining, and if the speed of light was 1 billion km per second. and if 5 billion km per second, and if ... a trillion, and so on.
- So, scrolling and repeating these crazy numbers, I noticed, that the Marquis began to crawl out of his chair, with glazed eyes.
Lulu and me rushed to him, but he did not react to anything.
We thought it was overheated and we carried him to the bedroom.
I continued my story, barely holding back my emotions.
- The riddle seemed so simple with speed, the answer was always there, as if someone had stood behind me for a long time and looked, as if with a smile and regret.
“Someone in the background of my mind, knew the answer for a long time!
- Convulsively, I began to look around, looking at the chaos around me.
- On moving inhabitants, on floating clouds, on leaves rustling on the nearest tree.
- Among all these crazy numbers, there was one thing in common, which applies to absolutely everything !!!
- At this time, the Marquis came to our kitchen, and, as usual, sitting on a chair, quietly, almost in a whisper, asked:
- Have you never heard the oldest legend, known as The Traveler's Paradox ???
Lulu and I looked at each other in bewilderment and prepared to listen.
- For the first time I heard about the "Traveler's Paradox" many years ago, from an old warrior, the Marquis began his story.
- He served all his life in the army of the neighboring kingdom.
- Among the troops there was the same legend, repeated from mouth to mouth.
- There is some kind of secret in it, that cannot be distorted.
- As you know, the same problem occurs with all ancient legends and texts.
- In the process of retelling and rewriting by countless inhabitants, they completely lose their meaning.
- With this legend, not everything is so simple.
- Everyone, who tried to change even one word, disappeared without a trace.
“So, I’ll have the courage to relate it to you.
- In ancient times, when there were no kings and kingdoms yet, the inhabitants led a tribal lifestyle. Some are sedentary, some are nomadic.
- As always, sometimes they fought among themselves, but mostly they lived peacefully.
- Gradually, rumors spread among the tribes about some unknown force, that had never been encountered before.
- From where a countless army appeared from the desert, sweeping away everything in its path, like a seething river.
- The fury in this army was so insane, that experienced commanders, the few who could survive, said that this simply could not be.
- Countless army, led by an unknown mighty force, had passed half the world by that time.
- It was very mobile, its warriors were born to fight and conquer the world.
- Huge hordes could appear as if out of nowhere, and just as suddenly disappear.
- The most interesting thing in any army is its commander, its leader.
- And here the most mysterious begins.
- None of his opponents knew exactly, what he looked like, although this is not surprising, after meeting with him, there were no witnesses.
- There were rumors he was looking for something, and would stop at nothing, to achieve his goal.
“Many warriors, even his troops, did not know, what he looked like, but they always knew, where he was. Therefore, it was impossible to lure him into a trap alone - warriors were always concentrated around him.
- As time passed, the generals who followed his tactics of warfare, noticed one strange feature.
- His army sometimes performed the most unpredictable actions.
- It could, having approached some rich city, abruptly changing direction, leave it untouched.
- Many had the impression, that the lust for profit and the seizure of new territories were not the driving force, that was the main one for all the attackers.
- Sometimes, the actions of the troops did not succumb to common sense at all.
It moved freely like the wind !!!
- This went on for many years.
- Having passed half the world, the army stopped at the borders of one powerful tribe.
- Two armies, each, to the horizon, lined up opposite each other ...
- Nobody expected, that there would be some kind of hitch.
- This has never happened before !!
- It doesn't matter, what strength and quantity the enemy stood in front of him!
- This time, the army from the desert hesitated, not daring to attack and stood like one huge living organism.
- Finally, some kind of movement began in it, the first rows opened, and the rider rode forward.
- His horse was black.
- The rider was dressed, like most of the soldiers. He also wore a gray cape, and a hood covered his head.
He moved slowly, towards the middle of the corridor, that formed between the two sides.
- Having reached the middle, he wearily dismounted from his horse, and waited.
- It seemed, the future of hundreds of thousands of lives was being decided here and now.
- To meet, from the opposite army, a rider also rode out, and slowly proceeded to the middle of the corridor.
- Likewise, dismounting from his horse, he moved forward.
- So, they stood in front of each other, both covered with dust of endless roads, in some of their own, another dimension.
- The whole world ceased to exist for them.
“Nobody knows, what happened between them.
The riders returned, both armies backed away and turned back.
- So, the lord of the desert army, having passed and conquered half the world, finally found, what he was looking for.
Lulu and I sighed thoughtfully.
The Marquis, after a long pause, continued,
- Everyone, who sets off on a long journey has a thousand reasons for this.
- Basically, since ancient times, the inhabitants were driven by curiosity, romance, the search for adventure, then some kind of business, trade, wars of conquest.
- Everyone, who spent most of his life on the road, can be safely called travelers.
- Pirates, robbers, nomadic warlike tribes.
- But sooner or later, all roads converge at one place - at the Treatise of the Traveler.
- It is impossible to read this treatise like a book, or listen to its retelling.
- You can only walk, drive, swim, fly or just crawl to it.
- The Treatise tells about the "Traveler's Paradox".
- If everything is so difficult hidden, where to find it ?? Lulu and I shouted.
- I also went for a long time to this answer, said the Marquis.
- I can give only one hint and no more.
- So, when you just set off on a long journey, attracted by a variety of feelings and forebodings.
- Or, maybe you have been wandering for many years and have forgotten about everything in the world, intoxicated with freedom and new sensations.
- The very first and most important signal, that turned you in the right direction will be a feeling ... of deep disappointment, boredom and disgust from passing into an empty life ...
- This will be the beginning, and the most important signal.
- Hold on to this sensation step by step, and an unknown force will swiftly pick you up, and carry you in the right direction.
- Nothing can stop you.
14.3
Tradition.
Lulu and I sat for a long time in silence, pondering the ancient legend told to us by the Marquis.
The Marquis was also thinking about something.
Then he said:
- You know, the ancient travelers had one ritual, the ritual was also a test.
- The Wanderer, who approached the riddle, known as the "Traveler's Paradox" once in a lifetime encounters an inexplicable thing.
- In the life of many wanderers, different encounters can take place. Hundreds, maybe thousands. Depending on the traveler's talkativeness.
- Of course, how not to brag about the conquered countries, the roads and adventures traveled ! Vanity is a good start for any endeavor.
- Among thousands of interlocutors and thousands of identical questions, one will be asked.
- As a rule, this will be the most inconspicuous interlocutor.
- As a rule, the questioned wanderer, starting to answer, immediately stops talking.
- As soon as he starts to respond, the environment changes dramatically, the whole world shrinks.
- He immediately understands, who is in front of him, or rather, what kind of power is in front of him.
- This is how the rite of acceptance into the ranks of the Traveler initiated into the treatise took place in ancient times.
- Nowadays, the ritual remains as a rudiment, as a tribute to a tradition, that is not important.
- Because no one except the seeker himself can find it, and the ritual was a kind of congratulation and a sign of respect.
- When a wanderer acquired knowledge, all roads opened before him.
- He became truly free.
“I’ll tell you, how it happened to me,” said the Marquis.
- With you??? Lulu and I recoiled in disbelief.
- Remember our expedition across the ocean, which we visited several years ago?
- Of course! Lulu and I nodded in response.
- What are the only memories of how we got there !! cried Lulu.
But then, there was some kind of hitch, and Lulu abruptly fell silent, as if remembering something.
The Marquis and I asked, what happened?
Lulu was the most impressionable of us, and her stories have always transported us to those wonderful moments of the past.
So, this time too, as if reliving the events again, she spoke quietly:
- Never before have I shared with you about one strange thing, that I saw on that voyage.
- As you well remember, our path was long and difficult, however, like all the previous ones.
- Swimming across the ocean is always a huge risk.
- I have always had a hard time enduring the rolling, not to mention the storm.
“I often couldn't sleep at night, and I constantly went out on deck a little after midnight to get some fresh air.
- According to my calculations, we have already covered most of the way, and we had about two weeks to go.
“This remaining section of the route was considered as one of the most dangerous, because many pirate ships plowed the local waters in search of prey.
“That very night, as always, I went out on deck.
“The night was so dark, that I could hardly make my way along the deck to the railing.
- As usual, I began to peer into the distance, trying to see something.
“But there was only a black wall around.
- The weather was extremely calm and only the bursts of waves on the sides of our ship reminded me, that we were in the middle of the ocean.
- The feeling of helplessness and loss was pressing more and more.
“Suddenly, I noticed that something strange was happening to the darkness around us.
- It became so dense and unnatural, that it seemed, that you could touch it with your hands.
- As if something accompanied us, and no force in the world could prevent us.
The Marquis and I listened in silence, reliving that time anew.
After almost a month and a half of sailing, having survived incredible trials, we, extremely exhausted and shabby, went to a distant shore.
Then, about two weeks, through the jungle, we reached the cherished goal.
Lost city.
We approached it by the evening.
We decided to spend the night on the outskirts so that, in the morning, without wasting time, we could begin to examine it.
The next morning, after a good breakfast, we entered the lost world.
The city was represented by various stone buildings, entwined with all the plants.
It was abandoned many centuries ago and nature has long been the mistress here.
We slowly, but surely moved towards the heart of the city - the highest pyramid.
This pyramid was of the correct form with numerous steps.
Looking around, we noticed, that the Marquis had disappeared somewhere.
- Yes, I remember very well how I calmed Lulu, saying that all cats are very curious and nothing bad will happen to him.
Lulu and I climbed up without hesitation to enjoy the view from above.
We again interrupting each other, forgetting about everything in the world, plunged into memories, as the Marquis quietly continued:
- Yes, I knew in advance, what I was looking for.
Lulu and I looked at each other in bewilderment.
- As you know, various dangerous events can happen on the road.
- Attacks by pirates, robbers, and anyone else.
- All wandering inhabitants, including pirates and robbers, always distinguish and feel the traveler, who has achieved knowledge and goes to his goal.
-Therefore, there is nothing that could stop him.
- They all part in front of him.
- During my long life, I have visited innumerable times in the most diverse mysterious places.
- Most of them are of historical interest and nothing more.
- Over time, I acquired a certain skill.
- Seeing this lost city, I knew, that it contained a certain fundamental secret, that concerns the entire Universe, the entire Global Universe.
- This secret is here, and awaits me for thousands of years !!
- Not knowing, where to start, I wandered along some stone structures overgrown with huge vines.
- Most of all, that fascinates me in such cities is the awareness of the fragility of our being.
- Thousands of years ago there was life here.
- Residents were in a hurry somewhere, going about their business.
- Then, something happened and the inhabitants disappeared so suddenly, that it was as if they had left the house half an hour ago, and will now return.
- Moreover, in whatever lost, deserted place I have not visited, the picture is the same everywhere, as if everything happened according to the same scenario.
-What happened to them ???
“Thinking in this way, I came to a large rectangular building.
- My experience told me it was a cult place, where priests performed their rituals.
- Going inside, I saw the dais on the opposite side.
- From the side of the altar came a barely perceptible melody, although there was no one around.
- Approaching the altar, I noticed steps on the side, that led somewhere down.
- Careful, I began to descend, continued the Marquis.
- Lulu and I froze with excitement, forgetting about everything.
- I went down the knocked down steps, and found myself in a rather large room. It was located almost under the altar.
- Torches blazed on the walls, lit by someone unknown.
- Looking around, I noticed numerous drawings and graffiti on the walls. Some kind of carved figures right in the wall.
- At the entrance stood something of a huge bowl of stones.
- Right there, in the cell, there were stone benches, on one of which I sat down.
- I was already very tired by this time, but it was cool here, and .... incredible silence, which I have never met.
- I found myself as if far from the rest of the world.
- Then I dozed off a little ...
- I woke up from what seemed to me like clap hands. Maybe I dreamed of something ..
- I began to peer at some hieroglyphs on the opposite side, covered with cobwebs.
- Having cleared a little, I tried to understand, what they were talking about.
“I took off one of the torches, and approached the wall.
- Gradually, clearing away the dust and cobwebs hieroglyph after hieroglyph, I cleared the entire text.
- It was written in some ancient language, which I certainly did not understand.
- As you already know, sounds are not carriers of information.
- Likewise, letters are also not carriers of information. They are the background, the medium through which the one, who wrote them exchanges, what he wants to convey.
- This text has stood before my eyes all these years.
I sat down carefully in front of it, looking superficially.
- Suddenly, the lights all at once went out, and I found myself in pitch darkness.
- So, having overcome a huge distance, sitting somewhere deep underground, in the ruins of an ancient city, I realized, that I had ……nowhere else to go. I came to where I have been striving all my life.
- Sitting alone in complete darkness, the knowledge of the "Traveler's Paradox" penetrated, permeated me.
- In the same place, where I was sitting, thousands of years ago also sat one of the ancient carriers of the Treatise, who left me his message !!!
- It hasn't been more, than two hours, since I got out ..
- Two hours ??? Lulu and I shouted.
- You were gone for four days !!!
- We were desperate looking for you through the ruins !!
- Lulu no longer hoped to see you again !!
The Marquis stared guiltily into the cup.
- Yes?? he asked reproachfully.
- Why did you forget about me, and climb alone on the pyramid. I also wanted to be with you.
- I got into that cell quite by accident, because I could not get to you.
“On the other hand, if you took me with you, I may not have recognized, what I know now.
14.4
The foundation.
I poured more tea for everyone and took out of the supplies the strawberry jam, which the Marquis loved so much.
Having scooped up more jam, he continued his story.
- So why, in ancient times, entire nations and armies were erased from the map in search of the treasured Treatise of the Traveler ??
- What is so valuable about it??? rightly you ask.
- Looking back and trying to comprehend history, I am always amazed at how difficult and thorny paths can be.
- I may never have told you this story, because the shortest path to the truth can only be made by the seeker himself.
“But I heard something in your previous conversation, that made me speak.
- The "Traveler's Paradox" is one of the most important laws of the Global Universe.
- As I went to visit, I heard a question about speed.
- The Traveler's Paradox addresses this issue as well.
- What ?!? How?!? I cried,
- I will share with you a secret, my friends.
The Marquis put the cup aside, concentrating on something, spoke softly
- You correctly paid attention to all the moving objects around you.
- The speed of light of your Universe, your tiny world is 300,000 km per second.
- In a System tending to infinity, any manifestation of something automatically rushes to infinity.
- Any measured value throws us to only one thing - the variations of these values also tend to infinity.
- We have an infinite number of worlds, universes, with their infinite inhabitants, with infinitely differently tuned universes.
- And here the most important and fundamental question arises.
- Our mind cannot cope with this task - it cannot, because its nature is not adapted for solving such a task.
- The Traveler's Treatise allows you to bypass the insurmountable.
- If, for example, imagine and unite all the endless worlds into one whole, what will it be ???
- Can one Global Universe exist as a single organism ?? So what's this???
- The answer to this question is - Yes, it can !!!
- And it exists !!!
- Global Universe with its border !!
- How so ?? Lulu and I stepped aside.
- Yes, there is.
- If it is impossible for you to imagine the border, do not stop at it. Let it be a kind of endless border for you.
“That’s not the point.
- The point is, that you feel right.
My head was slightly dizzy with excitement.
- Among the endless settings of the speed of light or any other substance than in other worlds the limitations are measured, there is one common property ...
- They are all …. calibrated from a single center !!
- They are all tuned from one reference common beginning!!!
- Just as in our body nothing moves spontaneously, but obeys one common center, such a center exists in the Global Universe !!
“I am amazed at the ignorance of the local inhabitants,” the Marquis continued.
- According to their theory, their Universe is expanding somewhere !!
- Local alchemists do not even want to come up with some kind of beautiful fairy tale to enrich themselves, as they used to in ancient times.
- Or is it the townsfolk have become so degraded.
- Most likely both.
- How, Global can expand somewhere, if by its definition it is impossible ???
- If the Universe expands, space expands.
- We would be torn apart in a moment, if the Universe expanded !!
- Well, okay, finishing his story, the Marquis took out a large spoon, and dipped it into a jar of jam.
“We have nothing to do with cunning and greedy alchemists.
- We need to do our business, the old pirate said, looking at us sternly.
14.5
Dream.
The three of us sat in silence for a while.
I got cherry jam for everyone's delight.
The Marquis, seeing such a thing, decided he would sit with us some more.
And then Lulu, as if waking up from some deep oblivion, cried out so, that the Marquis and I almost dropped our spoons and cups.
- Dream !!
- I wanted to tell you about my dream for a long time!
Lulu loved to tell the Marquis and me her wonderful dreams. Therefore, with anticipation of an interesting story, we prepared to listen.
“I've had the same nightmare lately,” Lulu continued.
- Waking up at night, only one word was pounding in my ears.
- In the morning, of course, I could not remember anything.
- So, jumping up in a cold sweat one night from the endless repetition of this word.
- As it was not difficult for me, I rushed to the table, and wrote it down on paper.
“In the morning I vaguely remembered, what had happened.
- Knowing, that I finally wrote down, what I dreamed, I again, without looking at that piece of paper, tried to remember it.
- In vain.
- Finally, I got up and walked awkwardly to the table.
On it lay a piece of paper with a single word.
- Recuperation.
The Marquis and I looked at each other in bewilderment, shrugging our shoulders.
Not such a word, especially what it means, and whether it exists at all, we did not know.
I opened a thick reference book.
After leafing through it for a while, I exclaimed joyfully upon finding this word.
As it turns out, Recuperation is an ancient word that means “receiving back; replenishment "- the return of a part of materials or energy for reuse in the same technological process.
- Well, what's wrong with that, we thought.
- Naturally, any spent energy or matter, must be compensated.
- Of course, this did not clarify anything, but it made me think.
- It was not as easy, as it seemed.
- I immediately remembered and flipped through a lot of documents, historical materials on searches and attempts to create a perpetual motion machine, that would receive the same amount of energy as it used up, would never break down and would work forever.
- But no matter, how many attempts to create a perpetual motion machine are made, everything is in vain.
- This is a utopia.
- But in the process of Recuperation, there was not even a hint of a perpetual motion machine, but only a partial restoration of the system.
Then, Lulu thought for a long time, plunging into some distant world of her own, forgetting about us, began to repeat, surprised herself, at her own observation …
- To my great regret, I cannot share even with you everything, that I guess.
But I'll try to tell you something.
- Motion.
- What do you see in it?
Marquis and I began to explain everything that is so obvious and that we have seen since our birth.
Lulu listened carefully without interrupting.
Then, she suddenly asked:
- What do you think, what are we allowed to see …..how much is that??
Marquis and I looked at each other in bewilderment...
- Of course, we have all heard different stories about otherworldly things, that no one has seen, but for some reason everyone is afraid.
- Mysteriously, the world is arranged in such a way, that we see only some superficial part of it.
- It would seem what it could be easier, than the process of movement, she continued thoughtfully.
- I used to think so too ... until that very night ....
- It's already evening, and it's time to talk about the world of Shadows and Ghosts, isn't it ?? Lulu asked mysteriously.
- I don’t know, why we were allowed to look behind this veil, but this is the very rare case, when through obvious, simple and understandable things, that no one pays attention to, you can go .... to the world of Shadows, from where rarely anyone comes back…, sighing heavily, she added.
- In what sense ??? we whispered with the Marquis in horror.
- In the most direct, calmly answered Lulu.
- But fortunately, it's impossible to get there by accident.
- The phenomenon of Recuperation is one of those very rare boundary pillars, leading to one of the most powerful, grandiose and great mysteries of the Universe - the Secret of Movement ... or rather …
Here she abruptly cut off her thought.
Looking at us carefully, she said anxiously:
- Behind this secret lies something incredible, unknown and therefore extremely dangerous for those, who cross the line for the first time, even if not accidentally, and therefore, I will not forgive myself if something happens to you.
- How is this possible, and what is the danger? quietly and tensely we asked.
- As soon as I bring you to this line, telling about what I saw myself, you will be left alone with this Mystery.
We'll all talk now and go home. Even if you forget everything, and do not attach any importance to it, what you learn ... will not go anywhere.
- What can happen next, no one can predict.
There was a painful pause...
- Are you ready??? Lulu asked softly.
Marquis and I silently nodded and listened intently.
Lulu patted the Marquis on the shoulder, sighed doomedly and continued:
- Imagine some kind of movement.
- As if some process, a phenomenon visible to all, was moving in one direction, but at the same time, something invisible, of the same nature with it, starts moving towards it !!
- Moreover, this mutual movement towards each other begins from the very beginning of this process !!!
Unexpectedly, Lulu, noticing us, cringed all over, as if she was afraid of something, and barely audibly continued:
- I thought a lot about this word, and what it could mean - if only because for the first time in my life, I forced myself at night, half-forgotten, to jump up and write down this word.
- I had a guess, that threw me into a sweat.
“Recuperation meant more, than just the process of recovering energy.
- And then, everything started spinning in my head - my thoughts began to get confused from an incredible guess - it just burst in destroying the brain.
- It was not the process itself, on which everyone focused their attention !!
- The recuperation process threw me to something very important, the very foundation of the Universe ..
“What if .... Lulu looked around to make sure no one could hear us, and whispered softly.
- The whole point is not in the recuperation process, but in its ... beginning ...
Then the Marquis and I felt uncomfortable and I also whispered softly:
- What do you mean??
Lulu continued.
- You see, when you look at the next "perpetual motion machine", the only thought that arises is, how long it will work until it stops. And almost everyone thinks!
- Everyone knows, that it is impossible, to build a perpetual motion machine, but everyone hopes!
- The problem of the riddle of a perpetual motion machine is the same, as the problem with the concept of infinity.
- Everyone pays attention to a specific sample. But no one paid attention to the process itself !!
- The very process of turning into dust of any undertaking is eternal !
This is a perpetual motion machine !!
- What do you think, where does any movement, event, or anything else…. begin?
- How is it, from what ?? Unable to withstand and forgetting about caution, we cried out with the Marquis at the same time. Of course from the beginning !!!
Lulu looked at us for a long time and then spoke softly:
- Unfortunately, and maybe even fortunately, all residents think so.
- Any beginning, no matter what, movements, events, is impossible without the simultaneous appearance of its end, the end point.
- Nothing will move without knowing the destination.
- When you go out for a walk, taking the first step, your last step of this walk is already determined, it does not matter if you know it or not.
- It's like, for example, on a falconry.
- The falcon begins to move only in one case, when the bandage is removed from his eyes, and he sees his goal.
- There can be no movement to nowhere.
The Marquis and I sat in deepest silence, blinking our eyes.
The Marquis, reaching for another portion of jam, froze halfway.
And whispered in horror.
- What does it mean, that our life is just a movement towards death, which appeared simultaneously with our birth ??
- If without any philosophy and romance, technically, then yes.
answered Lulu dryly.
- For a long time I was struck by one insoluble question.
- Where can the manifestation of life, which we know, for example, in the form of matter and energy from the Global Universe, an infinite, eternal, absolutely closed System, disappear ?!?
- Just like appearing in the absence of the very concept of the external.
- In endless darkness without a single atom, we suddenly appear, like a dream.
- As if the Universe became bored and it decided to dream and see through us, plunge through us into an endless variety of dreams.
- Let it be her day.
“Then, when everything disappears with the last atom, she falls deeply asleep.
- Let it be her night.