I write;I think;I know.

Positive Password; Negative Past.

A:

Imagine a book, a sequence of compressed symbols, twenty-seven of them. Every symbol tells it's own story, together they form part of a greater story. Shuffle the symbols around a bit and you get a different story. Now ask yourself if the book can still be said to be the same once the symbols have been disordered, or if the book can only exist when the original order remains intact.

X:

I'm not talking to a book am I?

Y:

No. You're talking to that thing you created to understand your mind. It has power over you, if you hadn't already realized.

X:

Yes, power over me I understand. Power over others is a bit problematical when it hits the mass-(un)consciousness meme.

Y:

Nonsense, it's merely an evolved form of thought. True, right now it can sometimes mean spending time sitting in a field waiting for the energies to balance out, but you have to admit sometimes... the girl from the sauna for instance.

X:

Okay, now it's getting downright supernatural. A Circle of candles is a bit much don't you think?

Y:

No. It anchors you in a realm, gives your mind parameters, contains the effect.

B:

It's an obvious point. Only when the symbols are in the original order can the book be said to exist. That said, what remains when the order is beyond recollection. Or, worse still, never consciously witnessed. All that remains is a location in time and space.

Y:

And with that a mysterious player has destroyed the majority of the human race.

X:

True, and like the undead they are they'll be back on my case tomorrow. Now, I have the answer in-front of me. Getting beyond explaining it to myself is proving apparently pointless.

Y:

No, not pointless. Merely tricky. It's a translation issue. Fifty-five may mean something specific, and in this context could suggest a certain environment. But right now you're painting in very broad strokes. That others will find hard to understand.

X:

It's the ramifications. When I start thinking like this things like the LHC begins to worry me. In that case it's the overlapping wavefront thing, like someone's trying to take my photograph and I feel like I don't want them to, but don't really know why.

Y:

Discovering a third and doubling the sum of all knowledge may sound like a tall order, but you'll see. It's a chain. An yes, the whole LHC actually creates the universe time paradox is most probably true, in at least seventeen dimensions.

X:

Okay, when you start using words like {probability} I know you're trimming the hedge.

Y:

True, there's some who shouldn't be allowed to believe in what to us is so readily obvious.

X:

Fine, throwing uncertainty into my very words for the audience is fine, but whenever you do it fires off a tiger-team and I loose some visualization capability. It's unpleasant. In unsecured space the effect can be unfortunate.

Y:

Not all the time, and face it, you're getting better handling the paradigm shifts. Gaining a greater ability to manipulate the fluidic nature of reality too. Mastery you could say. Finding the edge becomes easier.

X:

Easier? When sometimes I feel like my view on the matter it seen as little more than the television's opinion on whatever channel is playing. The problem here is that something like the Shrek effect is liable to get someone hurt. Fighting it gets downright nasty, when I see who it is that I'm hitting I start to see patterns of force which speak of something deeper. That my identity is in part built from the experience of those effects suggests something beyond failed to take responsibility because I took it upon myself. That's unfair, and speaks of deep entanglement in state resolution.

Y:

Starting to get the feeling some one has been deliberately pushing you over the edge? Something done so they may claim right. The truth here is they were really fighting themselves all along and you got caught in the back wash. It was conscious but repressed.

X:

The shape of it changes. From a huge gorilla to a peanut in an instant. That's only one barb though, there are others. Then there's the question of the mechanism of transference.

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It has become dispossessed. Cast it out.