Awoken by Shouts

- Ishmael.

Three months ago, I threw out my map. I didn't tell anyone I did it. I certainly told none why. But it's been long enough now, I've done what I needed to do. I have bought another map.

These months, I have been driving our van in a large and gradual circle. No one has questioned my directions.

Bellman uncovered a blog he believes to be an unseen Magreat work.

"permanently locked outside"

- Bellman.

Quote Of The Day: What is the difference between infinity and zero? It's a good question. Neither number is observable. Neither concept is really a "number." Zero is an hypothetical point of origin. Infinity is that which comes from the origin. (Down That Road: Responses to McCarthyism. 1954. Old tattered pamphlet I found in a secondhand bookstore's "Anarchy" section.)

I've been studying the cosmos for as long as I can remember. I look for the patterns in reality, and I ponder on their significance. But the road to connecting such dots is rife with Boojums, some of which scare us, some of which confuse us, and most of which massage our senses in a sacred act known as "normalization." These Boojums, I didn't make them up. They've been documented and accounted for, studied and speculated on, tested and retested with such empirical zeal that we are likely to have them down to a science (with a capital S) within our lifetimes. It's just that we haven't agreed on a name.

Boojums-- or so I am inclined to name them-- are tools. They can be controlled. In fact, they cannot not be controlled, as they are born the moment we first speak and are directed by the words and manner in which we speak. It might be safer to say that our words and mannerisms are controlled by Boojums! Or are perhaps tangible portions of the greater system that are, in totality, Boojums.

The first person to spot the Boojums was the first person to rule the world, as once you see them, you can control them deliberately so that other people do not see them. Given enough time, one could perhaps render Boojums unseeable. But not nonexistent. No. Never nonexistent.

What I'm trying to say. Is. That I saw it. Or rather, I'm trying to say how I saw it. I had to resign my curiosity and disprove (disbelieve?) Magreat's inner circle. Ishmael couldn't see it. I'm not sure why yet. But all I know is that I saw the end of all Boojums, the beautiful anti-Boojum. The deep.

I need time. To research this further. To perform rigorous tests, see if this discovery can be replicated. To see if it was real.