STANLEY AND THE INKWELL OF NOT-TIME

"No, Stanley. You don't understand, " he said. "If I take off these glasses, I lose all contact with the past." What he meant was that the synthesis would be impossible to achieve if it were not in the mode of an original being. Certain instantaneous consequences, concerning the Erlebnis, would characterize a hypothetical discovery, granted, but at what cost? "I am, of course, implying presupposition." He hastened to add that the duration of the extensions equaled the problem inherent in dimensional memory but could not explain the engram of extra-temporal refusals, regardless of spurious ideas. I tried to console him, "Dead time is an observable magnetization, like a piece of soft zinc in a phenomenal procession." He nodded, internally and inadequately, then said, "Grant a past to something atomically heavier than the Final Opposite and you've got an ontological dilemma." I hadn't the heart.