A Happy New Year To Alll Our Readers

[poliphilo]

I overslept by an hour- I guess that's traditional- but I wasn't late to bed. I stood at the upstairs window and watched the fireworks and then- at about five past midnight- turned in.

2005 already. It only seems moments ago that we were counting up to the millennium.

I've been noticing this recently - how I'll call up a memory and it'll seem like something I've only just done. For instance, I was packing up the Christmas tree decorations yesterday and I thought, hey, why am I doing this again so soon?

It's like we can fold time like paper. The present moment and the remembered moment touch and the time between is off to one side- disregarded.

I spent the dying minutes of the old year watching a couple of minor celebs get transformed- by the magic of prosthetics- into persons of the opposite sex. At the end of the process they looked like burns victims who had had their faces patched up with skin off their backsides- distinctly weird. They then had to go speed dating and fool a room full of people. I guess the
moral is that speed daters don't look too hard at the people sitting opposite.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

2005 already. It only seems moments ago that we were counting up to the millennium.

I wrote a check this morning, and it seemed like just the other day I was checking my checkbook to see if it was Y2K compliant. How can it have been that long ago?

Folding time. Sounds like an episode of Dr. Who...

Happy New Year.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think there's a theory that we might one day be able to reach far-off star systems not by travelling the distance (which would take ages)but by folding space (and time.)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Tesseracts!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Erm...yes.

I just googled 'em and had a Homer Simpson experience. You know, where someone is explaining something to him and you see this bubble above his head full of cartoon animals. I was always terrified of mathematics. :)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I should have said that the only reason I know what a tesseract is, is because of Madeleine L'Engle's book "A Wrinkle in Time". The concept is basically as you described, folded space. (Thus, the wrinkle in time...)