Friday, August 25, 2006

valve gas arrhythmia

Razor green homoclinic points resonated slowly in the mire. We watched as the manifold of perceptual eructation began to vilify our punctuation. I found the Transjunct widget, a small piece of material about the size of an iron filing, but like a nisk in capacity. Oh, well, I'd better back up.
A nisk is a very capable and flexible machine. Nisks are some of the most benightedly insightful pieces of spatial engineering ever created. When Percy Syzgaurus discovered a nisk in the junkyard in Stavron-on-Tengor, by the next day the Cjalj army, who had been committing horrible atrocities in the occupied Kaiurna district for the past five centuries, was defeated without any injury to anyone. No violence was involved either. The nisk was a tool that accelerated Percy into both differential space and differential time. It's really hard to talk about differential space and differential time the same way you might talk about a frog. If you take ordinary time and represent it as a room, and then smoothly cleave the room into smoke fragment puzzle pieces, differential time is like being able to play hopscotch on them. They can be rearranged, moments can be bisected. Events can be split, stretched, transformed into pencils. In differential space the same kind of temporary division of one's sensorium occurs. This way Percy was able to simultaneously transform every single weapon in possession of the Cjalj army into a hummingbird, butterfly, loaf of bread, piece of cheese, piece of porn, candy bar, or intoxicant in the space of five minutes. And the Cjalj army had about 10,000 troops in the area. It's a good thing because the higher ups had a massacre at Stratiti planned to commence within the hour. Percy later described the use of a nisk as "one of the strangest experiences in my entire life -- simultaneously I was in many places at once and doing many things at once to many objects but was not confused by them, or the separation between them. I was conducting a symphony of thousands of parts, and I was the director. I enjoyed the experience immensely but it was only a single use nisk. Perhaps one day I will get a hold of a multiple use nisk.

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