...even absurdist fiction or comedy lies in part in it's ability to suppose "truths". I've long been drawn to that familiar adage from Hamlet about there being more things in heaven and earth. I think it's probably true. Sorry I'm vacillating here by introducing statistics. I have a close family member, my mother actually, who is rather close to passing away (now there's an obfuscating phrase) so what could be considered spiritual matters often enter my mind. She is suffering from dementia, characterized by loss of memory. What's often interesting, though, is she frequently reconnects bits of her memory in unusual patterns. Several years ago she had mentioned to me that at the time I was born she recognized me. What I mean here is she recognized me as someone she had previously known but she did not know who or when. What can one say to that but "hummmm". This has resurfaced in instances of her dementia with her "remembering" unusual events. Mostly, however, what she remembers are tiny blocks of things that occurred throughout her life and are reshuffled on her timeline and reconnected in unusual combinations.

One of my favorite tropes from speculative fiction (I prefer that name rather than science fiction) concerns the connectivity of life or even the entire universe. Samuel R Delaney mentions in his little book, The Einstein Intersection, that in the Goedelian Universe an infinite number of truths exist that cannot be proven. This little book concerns the intersection between the Einsteinian and the Goedelian Universes. He does not use this particular trope in this story, however, but he does bring back the dead a number of times. One instance of this trope can be found in the television series, Babylon Five. I'm not a television fan but I did like some of the underlying themes of this show. Delenn, a main character, said something like life is the universe trying to figure itself out. This implies a connectiveness of the universe in some form of consciousness.

Anyway, I couldn't sleep because I had these ideas bouncing around in my head and thought I'd spew them out onto a blog page. Speculative Fiction allows one to put these unproveable concepts into a context that they can be manipulated even have fun with. I also had in mind here the absurdest comedy of Monty Python. Little bits of things one recognizes everyday can be pulled together into unusual combinations and played with. This may result in possibly startling revelations even epiphanies.

I hope I didn't waste too much of your time with this. I'm not nearly as literate as I once was, I mean, when I actually had to use my brain on a daily basis. It actually seems to get in the way much of the time now, at least on the job.