Wormhole

Posted on June 2, 2005 in Blogging Reflections

Is it ridged like the inside of a spring or is it smooth like the interior of a plastic pipe? Is it pimpled like stucco? Or does it carry you in a way that doesn’t call for hollowness? You can be light. Fiber optics. That is how I visualize it. And that is how you get to me here, on the loma at the fore of a long ridge leading down from a double peak that resembles the horns of a saddle.

This wormhole doesn’t take us through time, at least not very far. They may only be opened from now to the future. You may look back only at the evidences of the movement of my fingers over the keyboard. Pressing your face to the screen, you see nothing but a thick constellation of pixels. But you have traveled, in a small way, through time. Here I was and there you are, reading. This is also the way minds travel through books and paintings. Pick up Jane Austen and you know what she imagined. Look at a Renoir and you can see the naked girls toweling themselves off by the river on a sunny day. Those, too, are wormholes, opened in the past and tunneling through time to now, what was the future.

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I was contacted via another wormhole early this evening. The cell phone rang and a friend from up north — to whom I thought of turning in an hour of boredom — called me. There are very few people who I feel comfortable talking to over the phone and even fewer live close enough to meet me privately for lunch during weekdays. They say I shouldn’t isolate myself and yet who is there to aid me in prevention of this? Thankfully, the phone sometimes brings interesting conversations. My friend opened the wormhole at her end. Out of the milliseconds-long past I heard her voice and spoke to her. Sight is like that, too. You never see things as they as your brain thinks: there is always a delay that gets longer and longer as you stretch the distance.

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What would happen if I opened a longer wormhole, one through which I could see my future? Could I slide my hand just so and let the future in? What would come back to me? I will stick with my mundane wormholes of wire and fiber optics.