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8th Kick || [unintentional video]

Jan 16, 2011 23:14

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curse, memory theater, affected, a paradox

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voice; 7thborn January 17 2011, 05:24:53 UTC

That's a lot like the staircases at my school.

voice; windsorknot January 17 2011, 05:43:03 UTC

And what school would that be?

voice; 7thborn January 17 2011, 05:43:46 UTC

No school you've heard of, I'm sure.

voice; windsorknot January 17 2011, 06:12:53 UTC

Considering the architectural impossibilities we're talking about here, I didn't think it'd be something I'd heard of. I'm curious as to what kind of building design could play off of that kind of optical illusion, though.

voice; 7thborn January 17 2011, 06:20:00 UTC

Does it have to be an optical illusion? That certainly didn't seem like just an illusion to me.

voice; windsorknot January 17 2011, 06:34:21 UTC

That also didn't really happen. It's a recurring dream I used to have every other night. Considering how dreams are nothing more than what your mind perceives, then having something like the Penrose stairs in them isn't impossible. There aren't any actual physical laws to break in dreams.

voice; 7thborn January 17 2011, 06:37:22 UTC

Suppose it wasn't an illusion but just that the staircases like to move on their own. You'd never know.

[But that's more a thoughtful sort of off-hand comment because she's moving along.]

I never thought a memory of a dream could get on the network, but I suppose anything's possible around here. What're the Penrose stairs?

voice; windsorknot January 17 2011, 06:53:05 UTC

Maybe. Logic doesn't apply in dreams, after all.

The Penrose stairs are an impossible object based on a two-dimensional optical illusion. The illusion is that it looks like a three-dimensional staircase that continuously goes upwards or downwards. Were it actually possible to walk on those stairs, the person would never get any higher - or lower.

voice; 7thborn January 17 2011, 18:33:12 UTC

[... she can't help it, secrecy be damned, she's laughing.]

Oh, Merlin, that definitely sounds familiar. I didn't realise it had a name other than magic, of course. Or temperamental staircases. All the same, seems like a bloody infuriating dream to keep having, just walking all over stairs like that. Bad enough that they can make you late to class, you know?

voice; windsorknot January 17 2011, 20:31:04 UTC

I didn't realize it could actually exist in reality. If anything could make it possible, I guess it'd have to be magic.

[ He snorts out a laugh ] It's not as bad as you might think.

voice; 7thborn January 18 2011, 19:51:37 UTC

Do you believe in it?

voice; windsorknot January 19 2011, 01:24:41 UTC

It doesn't exist in my world, so no. Since coming here, though? It's not like I've had much of a choice.

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