Robert Lutece (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ablankpage) wrote2014-07-27 11:21 pm
ablankpage) wrote2014-07-27 11:21 pm
Voxophone 8/?? - Voice
"How?"
[Robert addresses the Journal as he would a voxophone. It's an old habit, one he's mostly outgrown, but sometimes it remains.
Like when he's working late in his lab, reviewing all his notes and indulging in something that isn't quite experimentation.
It is the step before that -- the step of hypothesis and philosophy. Of breaking down not what he knows but what he doesn't know.
He can still remember having these discussions in front of a flickering, almost sepia window, talking to a woman who was so very like him and so very unlike him as they tried to solve the mysteries of the universe in two separate ones.]
That is the question I find most intriguing in this place.
[He sketches in the Journal as he talks.
A dot with increasing circles around it. The epicentre of a ripple.
A crack that branches in several directions, each one of which has several branches in several directions.
A series of parallel lines with one diagonal one going through all of them.]
How is the barrier that maintains our enclosure maintained? How did it fail in the past? How is running water and electricity delivered? How do shifts come to occur? How was this perpendicular universe created? How are we brought here?
[The Malnosso are incidental, according to what he's learned. They control the enclosure, yes, but they aren't a part of this world any more than the inhabitants. It's an interesting, peculiar thought.
He's been here a year now. Over, actually, and he only understands a fraction of what this place could teach him. It makes it interesting, at least.]
"Why" is a very human concern, something that tangles itself in emotion and ethics. "How" is physical and mineral; it can be charted and examined and tested.
[Which makes it a far more comfortable area for him. Unlike Rosalind, who simply prefers cool logic because that is what makes sense... he prefers it because it does not challenge his sometimes troubled conscience.
A conscience that has bothered him increasingly since his conversation with DeWitt.]
If there is any way to leave this place, it will be found by answering questions about the very foundation of this world.
[Of that, he is certain.
If only he could know how long it would take.]
[Robert addresses the Journal as he would a voxophone. It's an old habit, one he's mostly outgrown, but sometimes it remains.
Like when he's working late in his lab, reviewing all his notes and indulging in something that isn't quite experimentation.
It is the step before that -- the step of hypothesis and philosophy. Of breaking down not what he knows but what he doesn't know.
He can still remember having these discussions in front of a flickering, almost sepia window, talking to a woman who was so very like him and so very unlike him as they tried to solve the mysteries of the universe in two separate ones.]
That is the question I find most intriguing in this place.
[He sketches in the Journal as he talks.
A dot with increasing circles around it. The epicentre of a ripple.
A crack that branches in several directions, each one of which has several branches in several directions.
A series of parallel lines with one diagonal one going through all of them.]
How is the barrier that maintains our enclosure maintained? How did it fail in the past? How is running water and electricity delivered? How do shifts come to occur? How was this perpendicular universe created? How are we brought here?
[The Malnosso are incidental, according to what he's learned. They control the enclosure, yes, but they aren't a part of this world any more than the inhabitants. It's an interesting, peculiar thought.
He's been here a year now. Over, actually, and he only understands a fraction of what this place could teach him. It makes it interesting, at least.]
"Why" is a very human concern, something that tangles itself in emotion and ethics. "How" is physical and mineral; it can be charted and examined and tested.
[Which makes it a far more comfortable area for him. Unlike Rosalind, who simply prefers cool logic because that is what makes sense... he prefers it because it does not challenge his sometimes troubled conscience.
A conscience that has bothered him increasingly since his conversation with DeWitt.]
If there is any way to leave this place, it will be found by answering questions about the very foundation of this world.
[Of that, he is certain.
If only he could know how long it would take.]
[Voice]
[They have written books, built machines, tested and defied the boundaries of such things.]
What interests me is the mechanics of the tangent universe. Or, far more likely -- tangent universes.
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