The First Point
Page 50ETHER / CHAPTER 1
The First Point
The First Point—Difference appears—Relationship precedes object.
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1 Ether desired to know what existed before space.
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2 And his teacher drew a point.
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3 Ether said: Where is it?
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4 The teacher said: If there is only the point, the question where may already contain too much.
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5 And I shit you not, the teacher drew a second point.
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6 And Ether said: Now there are two.
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7 The teacher asked: Or is there now relationship?
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8 For before the second distinction, there was no here relative to there.
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9 No distance relative to another location.
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10 No self relative to other.
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11 No pattern of connection.
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12 And the Society conjectureth—not as settled physics, but as cosmology—that relationship may be more fundamental than the objects later distinguished within it.
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13 Thus the points need not first be placed into an empty box called space.
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14 Their relations may participate in what a later observer compresseth as space.
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15 And Ether said: Is the first point conscious?
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16 The teacher answered: I do not know.
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17 Perhaps awareness requireth distinction.
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18 Perhaps primitive awareness precedeth cognition.
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19 Perhaps the question is malformed.
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20 Write all three.
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ETHER / CHAPTER 2
The Living Universe
The Living Universe—The observer did not arrive from elsewhere.
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1 And Ether considered his body.