When the sun set, the sky looked like the ribbed edge of a beach, sand which the waves had lapped at as the tide ebbed.
Would you choose a cause over power?
I don’t know.
Over life?
Probably not. No.
Why?
I would rather be darkness than a point of light.
Darkness prevails, and the night lasts longer than the lightning bolt.
Yes. But, speaking in your own brand of cryptic utterances, the comet burns in the sky for only a few days, but its memory endures for much longer.
He laughed. Yes, he said, but you see the comet against the darkness. It suits the night to let the comet be seen.
So why aren’t you the Sun? It is bright, and it is forever.
You’re forgetting entropy. The sun must die, too. Only the night is forever.
Can you see the sun in the water? In that patch?
Yes. What do you think that shape in the middle of the disc of the sun looks like?
You mean the cloud?
Yes.
I don’t know. A wolf?
Yes. A wolf.
He looked at the water, choked with the water hyacinth.
Is that a flower?
No, he said. It is only paper. Only paper.
8 comments:
out of darkness, light.
without each, the other is incomplete.
ever wondered what it'd be like, being the tail of a comet, always pointing away from the sun?
nothing is forever. not even darkness. forever is a word which still exists as humans are not yet adapted to really "big" numbers.
the sun however will not "die". it'll "evolve". maybe to a white dwarf or a neutron star. it'll be a galaxy-illuminating supernova before that. few million years of glory.
why is black black.
i mean there couldve been another colour in which you couldnt see anything.
see when there was nothing...there was the colour black.
so where did this black come from?
weird no.
what would be left if you remove black from nothing.
i like my word verification word:yroji
hehe.
@ Diviani: Do we need the presence of something to define its absence?
@Agarwaen: Supernova after the white dwarf. in between, the red giant, the red dwarf, the black hole. As far as I remember!
But I wasnt just talking about the star.Even though it might conceivably evolve into many stars, it will die. Along with the rest of the universe. The big crunch, you know...
@merc: Lol. But, y'know, Black is absence.
We think 'nothing' is black. It probably is, but no eyes are going to be around to see it.
it is not its definition as much as its completeness the absence of one half of a duality confers upon the other.
Mounomukhorota?
yes. the big crunch. but then again there may be a big bang and the whole thing starts all over again. that's one theory depending on the amount of Dark Matter in the universe.
It's also said likewise in The Bhagavad Gita, the whole Hindu theory of endless cycle of birth and re-birth of the universe.
who knows? Time will tell.
Speaking in a Tolkien-esque way, however, "even the darkest places are reached by the light."
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