シナジーのメタファー３

◆空間と時間
Why the moon? There's no moon tonight, or else the room couldn't be so dark.
Isn't it the same old yearing for immortality, akin to all our desires to transcend all kinds of human limits? The feeling that if you bring such a thing off you're approaching the transcension of our limits of life: our death.
A１B２C１D２

We master our environment in order to stay alive, but this is mastery only over the human span, whether that's measured by three-score-and -ten or its prolongation for a few years - as with the old lady - by medicine. We've learnt how to stay alive - until it's time to die.　A２B１C１D１

You can go down after love or up after the moon.
But if you master something outside our physical environment, isn't it reasonable to believe you are reaching out beyond the fact of death? If you master that beyond, as those men up there have done, isn't that the closest we've ever got to mastering death? Won't it seem the prefiguration, the symbol of that mastery?
They are alive, up there. 　A１B２C２D２

The very scene of operations is significant. We call the nothing above me 'the sky'; and that way it's become the roof of our environment, part of our terrestrial and finit being, witness of our moment of eighty-seven years or thirty-one (he would bave been thiry-two next month).　A２B１C２D２

But we know that that 'nothing', beyonf the layer of cloud I've seen for myself from a plane, that wrapping of atmosphere that others have soared above - that 'nothing' is space. Twin of time, the phrase goes. I hear it in Graham's voice: together they represent, in the only conception we're capable of forming of it, infinity. Nightly, lilac infinity.　A１B２C１D１

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