Three Spaces
From topology to a dancer
The way she moved was like ... I don’t know: everything.
The voice I have inside me, or had, is rather simple.
You have to imagine I’m in a room with my computer,
and that’s really it, no books - forget it.
Ideas and junk...
The pronouncement.
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Light. Dreams. Topology.
In first moment he fell asleep. The women from the sea drove their boats out.
There is a building that changes shape and composition. The whole story is set in such a building.
Rooms are compact sets in Euclidean space with boundary.
When I woke up, I found myself on a single bed in small room with a door on one wall and no windows.
There was a single flower in a vase on the bedside table.
The user begins in a hollow box. It is crucial to imagine that the space is homeomorphic to a hollow ball, a sphere.
“I spent many years trying to build in free space. Now I realise the secret: topological constraint.
If the path is a singular one, a deterministic path from start to finish, then the tunnel, if you will,
has the same fundamental group as a circle.”
“At first I wanted to design the world from small pieces with simple topological invariants.”
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Misery. I tried to be what I was not.
I tried to be intense, when I was really mellow.
“Luther, speak to me?”
“I am tired.”
“This isn’t an exponential decay is it?”
“I like to think it has a sine wave amplitude. So up and down, but overall, slowly down.”
“Don’t be coy. You won’t give up?”
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Dear readers,
I hope you enjoyed it, although I feel I need to venture out again in the space of ideas and in the space of the world. Hoping I come back with some treasures…
I. N.