"I can hardly believe we are talking about a possibility so inconceivable as that other universes exist—and that the Geometers originate there!" In this, Zh'vaern seemed to speak for the entire table. Except for Jad. "The words fail. There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes—that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by many other Narratives besides ours. Each Narrative looks like a cosmos alone, to any consciousness that partakes of it. The Geometers came from other Narratives—until they came here, and joined ours." Having dropped this bomb, Fraa Jad excused himself, and went to the toilet. "What on earth is he going on about?" Fraa Lodoghir demanded. "It sounded like literary criticism!"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anathem
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Anathem
32 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Anathem →
Related Quotes
"In a sense the clock was the entire Mynster, and its basement. When most people spoke of “the clock,” though, they me…"
"“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have…"
"They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they wer…"
""Ylma is having you work it out in the most gruesome way possible...so that when she teaches you how it's really done…"
"I went to Saunt Grod’s chalk hall and took a seat in the large empty space that, as usual, surrounded Barb. There was…"
"Barb wanted only to understand this one problem or equation chalked on the slate before him now, today, whether or no…"
"Describe worrying," he went on. "What!?" "Pretend I'm someone who has never worried. I'm mystified. It don't get it. …"
"There’s no way to get from the point in Hemn space where we are now, to one that includes pink nerve-gas-farting drag…"
"But in that we started so many things in that moment, we brought to their ends many others that have been the subject…"
"“Do your neighbors burn one another alive?” was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec. “Do your sha…"