"Throughout this process, I had the imagery of evolutionary balance in my head. One of these images was like a massive cavern filled with ropes and pulleys and anchors, tons of lines of force pulling in all different directions from all sorts of centers and anchors. One moment it was stable, a tensegral stillness — and then, the next mom…
"Throughout this process, I had the imagery of evolutionary balance in my head. One of these images was like a massive cavern filled with ropes and pulleys and anchors, tons of lines of force pulling in all different directions from all sorts of centers and anchors. One moment it was stable, a tensegral stillness — and then, the next moment, 3 cables all broke at once, sending everything else jerking around, which then snapped a few more cables, sending even more jerking around, continuing until the whole cavern was an erratic hyperdimensional poly-pendulum of destruction.
The other image was of a crystal. There was a nice-looking crystal that had lost its molecular structure and dissolved into goop. And somehow or other, I knew that the goo could either stay goo, and then harden into a puddle-shaped rock... or, I could vibrate the goo at certain frequencies, and those frequencies would vibrate its molecular structure in particular ways, such that when it hardened, it would be an even clearer, even more beautiful and durable crystal than it had been before."
"Throughout this process, I had the imagery of evolutionary balance in my head. One of these images was like a massive cavern filled with ropes and pulleys and anchors, tons of lines of force pulling in all different directions from all sorts of centers and anchors. One moment it was stable, a tensegral stillness — and then, the next moment, 3 cables all broke at once, sending everything else jerking around, which then snapped a few more cables, sending even more jerking around, continuing until the whole cavern was an erratic hyperdimensional poly-pendulum of destruction.
The other image was of a crystal. There was a nice-looking crystal that had lost its molecular structure and dissolved into goop. And somehow or other, I knew that the goo could either stay goo, and then harden into a puddle-shaped rock... or, I could vibrate the goo at certain frequencies, and those frequencies would vibrate its molecular structure in particular ways, such that when it hardened, it would be an even clearer, even more beautiful and durable crystal than it had been before."
Exquisite.