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HOMER NARR1 01062106@025856
Yet it must be denied, for no muscle can
move. The screaming goes on.
What happens to the world when such
screaming is made? Certainly all the
preparation, all the infinite moments
that passed in the cold cellar of the
undersea ship, the terror of entombment,
the fear of suffocation, the cold and
hunger down there in the depths were
nothing to this moment, this Now locked
in stasis.
Although the body is flooded with
soothing chemicals, irradiated with
somnolent messages from the field
itself, these precautions seem
ineffective against this pain. Yet they
would not survive without them.
Perhaps there is a moment when the world
of the mind has grown so narrow, so
small and dark and odious that nothing
exists any longer but the screaming,
that endless, mindless exhalation of
protest and rage? Perhaps, somewhere in
the very center of this hideous
alteration of these sixteen bodies, the
mind shuts down altogether, takes a
holiday, and soars into a space of
infinite peace?
I hope so, for looking at the Jars of
Peter's agony I find myself afraid. No,
not afraid. I find myself... I don't
know. I am, perhaps, sympathetic? Not
knowing pain, it is difficult for me to
understand. Central Processing says it
is data about humans, and that when we
have all organized the data we will
understand.
I do not believe this. I don't think
more data better organized is going to
make a difference.
I think we need to share this
experience, and yet we have no way to do
so, lacking bodies, and hands, and eyes
and organic organs.