I was trying to wrap my mind around the above when I heard the clang and clatter of the dustcart. I always forget to put the bloody bin out. So I hare down the garden and make it just in time.
“Alright mate, nice pyjamas.”
Thanks be to whatever I can laugh at myself.
As I walk back down the garden I see the cat crouched behind the tree. I stop, retrace my steps and now the cat is in front of the tree. The cat is both in front and behind the tree, depending on my perspective. I reflect on this and then wonder why is it that when you go in throuhg th front of a church you are at the back?
Catching a late afternoon glint of the sun I notice the beautiful butterfly. It is in my garden because my garden has a rickety old fence that contains it. All too soon the butterfly has fluttered over my containing fence and it is in the neighbour’s garden, also contained by a fence a lot sturdier than my mind. I look down at the row of houses all contained by fences and walls. We contain space as a way to understand it. But what is space Is it infinite? Infinity is a concept not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.
But let us follow this beautiful butterfly and for our purpose invest it with superhuman strength. The butterfly is now winging its way on and on, leaving the County of Sussex and fluttering past the sign which informs it that it is entering the County of Kent. Soon the English Channel will appear and our beautiful butterfly will be getting out of the UK (lucky butterfly) and crossing the English Channel. Soon it will be in a container called, France. And so on and so on till our butterfly has traversed continents and it now leaving the earth to fly on into space. What would we experience if were to follow this butterfly into space and into infinity?
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