Emergence 3.0
A Novel – One Page Per Day
Day 027, Saturday
January 27th, 2018
Chapter Six: Finding
Kathy stayed at her table. She sat by herself, alone in the crowd,
concentrating on Jim.
She sensed a fragility in him she never had felt before, had never
imagined was possible. With that, she felt it was an omen, a portent,
indicating that life as she knew, all life on Earth was about to change.
She did not let go of him she sat there in the oppressive-ominous moment
and did something she had never done before, she left the present, and began to
open-up Jim’s past, tracking him back in time moment by moment like rewinding
thread onto its spool, carefully laying every fraction of a millimeter, mindful
of her obligation to lose nothing at all.
The present had always been easy for her to see. Her own past was open
to her like a billion volumes of narrative history. Even her genetic memory
spoke to her in ways that it spoke to no-other, but she had never looked into
the real-past of another individual.
It was fascinating, not only because the subject was Jim, a person she
had never before been able to penetrate, it was fascinating because it opened a
new dimension, a dimension of time to her growing powers and awareness.
She was looking into the real past, not just the recollection of their
past, the editorialized version of it that every human being walks around with.
She was penetrating the objective reality of the individual experience that lay
behind the narrative interpretation that every person processes every moment
they are awake.
This was new, and it was exhilarating, it was Jim.
It was not a process that she could engage in, in no-time, not yet, she
was rolling up the thread of his recent experience moment by moment. It was
like watching a movie, and in that movie, in Jim’s experience, undergirding
what he was seeing and feeling, was his self-narrative, and in that narrative
Kathy was the star.
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