Truth of the Divine by Best Selling HotDog Girl. Lindsay Ellis
DHI Book Club Discussion by pibbs
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PART 3: A Crowd of People Stood and Stared (the actual title of this part, not like my sarcastic chapter titles)
February 9, 2008
A RTICLE 20.1 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Mmmk. Just that then the next chapter.
Chapter 26: What Dreams May Come
EDIT: What follows is the dumbest scifi I have ever read. You know, besides the other chapters in this book.
So Cora opens her eyes (most overused cliché ever) to see an early morning sky. She's on a vast area rimmed with mountains...
but the ground was not flat, rather, it was almost honeycombed, an endless desert of lattice. Each comb was about the size of a tire, rimmed by crystals a few inches tall that looked like tiny ocean waves that crested and then froze. She put a finger to her tongue, confirming that she was standing on a salt flat.
Couldn't just say, “Cora was standing on a great salt flat?” There's still another whole page of description just to say, she was standing on a great salt flat surrounded by mountains, and it was a little cold.
BTW Enola is there. Not the renamed Nikola, but Enola. THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU BOTHER TO RENAME HIM LINDSAY??!!
“Why did you bring me here?”
“ W E ARE INSIDE A METAPHOR .”
Um... WHAT?!
That's not a metaphor, YOU STUPID BITCH! It's actually happening!!!
A metaphor is a figure of speech containing an implied comparison. With metaphors, words or phrases that are ordinarily applied to one type of item or concept are applied to something that is not ordinarily associated with that terminology.
Maybe, MAYBE, one can argue that metaphors can be made on a holdeck and such, but the thing itself ISN'T a metaphor! It's a hologram using visual representations with symbols as metaphors. Anyway, I have no faith that Lindsay has the cleverness or thoughtfulness to pull this one off. Get your hazmat suits on, gentlemen, as I suspect we are about to go very far up Lindsay's own ass.
T HE METAPHOR IS THE UNIVERSE .”
*groans out loud
He bent down to her eye level and summoned a small clump of salt about the size of a marble from the ground, spinning it between them like a tiny moon. “ A ND THIS REPRESENTS THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE .”
I can see why we need metaphors to illustrate such complex ideas. Fuck off, Lindsay. Then he makes a salt ball the size of a fist that represents the SUPER-ORGANISM'S knowledge. Then he makes gestures to the vast salt flat that represents all knowledge.
*groans again
I'm just going to copy paste the rest of this shit.
COSMOLOGICALLY, OUR TWO SPECIES ARE VIRTUALLY TWINS . I F WE WERE TO CONDENSE THE SCALE OF THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE TO ONE E ARTH YEAR, THE AMYGDALINE TWIN WOULD BE 148 SECONDS OLDER THAN THE HUMAN TWIN, BOTH STILL IN EARLIEST INFANCY .
“ A ND THIS METAPHOR REPRESENTS ONLY THE KNOWN UNIVERSE . L ET US SAY THAT THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE BEGINS BEYOND THOSE MOUNTAINS.” He gestured to the horizon. “ W E CANNOT KNOW HOW FAR THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE GOES . F OR YOU SEE, LITTLE COUSIN, WE EXIST ONLY IN A POCKET OF THIS UNIVERSE, AND BOTH OF US, HUMAN AND AMYGDALINE, FACE THE SAME LIMITATIONS . T HIS IS THE FIRST THING I NEED FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND . I N THIS METAPHOR, ONLY THIS FLAT IS KNOWABLE . A NYTHING BEYOND IT IS NOT KNOWABLE, BECAUSE WE ARE CONFINED TO THIS DIMENSION OF SPACE-TIME AND CANNOT BREAK FREE OF IT . B UT THERE ARE SOME CONSTANTS TO THIS UNIVERSE, SOME LAWS THAT CANNOT BE CHANGED . B UT BEFORE I CAN EXPLAIN IT , I MUST FIRST GAUGE WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW . W HAT DO YOU KNOW OF SPACE-TIME, LITTLE COUSIN ?”
The very next line.
“A little bit,” she said. “It’s explained here by Einstein’s theory of relativity.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA! She understands Einstein but needs a Sesame Street dream cartoon to explain the size difference of the knowledge of the two species? Just, stop it, Lindsay. This bitch just can't be this intelligent. No where in your books have you established this. You can't just pull this out of your ass and expect it to be believable.
Then he explains with the salt how there are 10 dimensions. We can only sense 3 and time. Seems Lindsay has been watching Bill Nye the Science Guy.
T IS A PART OF THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE OF HOW CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPED. I NDEED, FOR ALL OUR HISTORY, WE ONLY HAD ONE SAMPLE OF A NATURALLY EVOLVED SPECIES THAT DEVELOPED CONSCIOUSNESS—OUR ANCESTORS. B UT NOW, LITTLE COUSIN, WE HAVE DISCOVERED ANOTHER—YOU .”
We're special.
“What isn’t he telling me? Why are we able to sense each other’s emotions like this?”
“ I DO NOT KNOW .”
She pulled away from him, and his hand curled back under him in his neutral stance. “You said you’d tell me the truth.”
“ I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU WHAT TRUTH I HAVE. I DO NOT KNOW WHY YOUR BOND IS UNIQUE. I T IS POSSIBLE THAT WE MAY NEVER KNOW THE FULL NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONSCIOUS AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS, WHERE FUSION BONDS ARE ROOTED, AND WHERE WE ARE BEST ABLE TO SENSE THE D IVINE. Y OU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT .”
So, the big secret is that they don;t know why they are butt buddy bonded? WE ALREADY KNEW THIS!!! This book is a colossal waste of time.
He makes another demonstration out of salt explaining:
THIS STRING REPRESENTS A DIMENSION OUTSIDE OF OUR SPACE-TIME . O NLY THIS STRING IS NOUMENAL, AND AS IT EXISTS OUTSIDE OF SPACE, IT EXISTS IN ALL SPACES . A SINGLE POINT IN EXISTENCE THAT CONNECTS ALL POINTS.” T HE FLATTENED SALT FOLDED IN HALF LIKE A PIECE OF PAPER, AND THE BLACK GASEOUS ARCH CONTRACTED UNTIL THE SLAB MET WHERE THE TWO ENDS OF THE ARCH HAD TOUCHED IT . “ B Y EXPLOITING THE OMNIPRESENT NATURE OF THIS DIMENSION, WE CAN CONNECT TWO POINTS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE AND RIP THEM OPEN, BECAUSE THROUGH THIS DIMENSION, THEY ARE ALWAYS CONNECTED. T HERE IS A NATURAL PRECEDENT FOR THIS, ONE BASED IN THE CONSCIOUS MINDS OF INTELLIGENT BEINGS .”
“Fusion bonding,” she said.
OK, finally, Lindsay let's us in on the big secret. The Big Lie & has been hiding. Here it is:
“And that’s what you meant when you said he lied about why he decided to bind himself to me,” she said, trying to push away that fear that wasn’t hers. “Dynamic fusion bonding isn’t a homing beacon. He couldn’t use it to sense proximity.”
“ C ORRECT .”
*blink blink
AND?
What the fuck does this matter?
“Then why did he do it?”
“ I DO NOT KNOW . I SIMPLY KNOW THAT IF HE TOLD YOU THAT THE ABILITY TO SENSE PROXIMITY WAS HIS RATIONALE FOR MAKING THE DECISION TO BIND HIMSELF TO YOU, HE SPOKE MISTRUTH .”
Does anyone care? Am I missing something? WHY ARE WE WASTING TIME ON THIS STUPID SHIT?!!
Seriously, someone tell me if I'm missing the big deal here.
“ T HERE IS A PART OF THE BRAIN THAT LIVES AND VIBRATES OUTSIDE THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, A PART TIED IN WITH WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL A SUBCONSCIOUS, WHERE THE BRAIN GREETS BUT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE UNKNOWN . T HEREFORE, THE BRAIN CREATES FORMS IT UNDERSTANDS FOR THIS UNKNOWN—THIS IS THE D IVINE . T HIS IS WHERE RELIGION COMES FROM, BOTH FOR OUR ANCESTORS AND FOR YOU . I T IS THE BRAIN GIVING A FORM TO THAT WHICH IT KNOWS TO BE TRUE BUT CANNOT COMPREHEND . S OMETHING SIMILAR HAPPENS WITH YOUR BOND TO OUR DEAR B ELOVED .” He looked toward the mountains in the distance. “ Y OUR BRAIN IS TRYING TO GIVE FORM TO THE SUBCONSCIOUS INPUT IT IS RECEIVING .”
“Why wouldn’t Ampersand want me to know that?”
“ F ROM WHAT YOU KNOW OF OUR DEAR B ELOVED, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE MORE TERRIFYING TO HIM THAN AN OUTSIDE FORCE THAT HE CANNOT CONTROL PERIODICALLY INVADING HIS UNCONSCIOUS MIND ?”
I need to do laundry today. I'm debating whether to go to the grocery store. I have just enough to get through the day, but am I going to be too tired tomorrow?
She stilled, a sense of dread rising. She recalled that first night he’d implanted those “monitors” in her, that his primary objective was to stop that side effect altogether.
Also, my dog's ear is bothering her. I'm monitoring it, but I may have to take her to the vet.
“ I T IS PROBABLE THAT HE WILL NOT EVER BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN OR CONTROL THIS BOND BETWEEN YOU, BUT HERE YOU ARE, THROUGH NO INTENT OF YOUR OWN, ABLE TO ENTER HIS MIND AND AFFECT HIS THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS IN A WAY THAT NEITHER OF YOU CAN CONTROL .”
This was a thought she’d toyed with many times and always dismissed as absurd. That if she invaded his mind one time too many, he might be forced to take desperate measures. “Is there anything I can do to stop invading his mind?”
I was wondering now that Spoony is back with Miles if in the ner future if Miles will costar in another review video. You know, start the ball rolling so-to-speak. I know Miles is a bit of soyboy but his stability may actually help Spoony recover from the woke damage from April.
T HIS IS THE LIMITATION THAT WE SHARE . A S BEINGS OF FOUR DIMENSIONS, WE CAN ONLY ADVANCE SO FAR . W E CAN NEVER EXPAND CONSCIOUSNESS AS WE UNDERSTAND IT PAST FOUR DIMENSIONS . T HE NOUMENAL DIMENSIONS CANNOT BE ACCESSED OR CONTROLLED, BUT THAT OF COURSE HAS NOT STOPPED OUR DEAR B ELOVED FROM TRYING .”
Oh... fuck, right. This “story.” Cora hears a sonic boom. Enola explains it's one of them arriving via “semiautonomous plating” like when he arrived. You know, inside this metaphor. Then Cora swiftly changes the subject to & killing humans way back when the aliens abducted and experimented on them. The switch from a sonic boom to &-Hitler is so fucking abrupt it gives me whiplash.
So what made & kill the hoomans?
Enola’s eyes brightened, now luminous from the light of the sun that was about to peek over the top of the mountains, and he leaned down until his eyes were level with hers. He ran the edge of a shiny black digit over her cheek, so softly it could have been mistaken for a feather, and said, “ I DID”
*cue dramatic soap opera music.
End of chapter.
To Lindsay and her mob, book discussion is in the NCunt: Black Cocks Only thread, where you may REEEEE without censorship. A freedom of differing opinion that we grant and that you wouldn't.
