Characterized No matter how far you've gone,
you're only ever half way there. This is the xylowave; a kind of void that is not
nothing, but less than nothing. It is the distance that still
remains even after the final step has been taken. A xylowave
occurs everytime an effect has no cause, or a cause has no
effect. Potential occasionally arriving in the form of a
delay.
Case in point: that of Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster
in the 1940's who for years strutted around, fattened up on
grain and preened for hens, all without a head.
Mike lost his head in '45 when a Colorado farmer,
anticipating a chicken dinner, lopped off the head of the
young Wyandotte rooster. Instead of croaking and getting sent
to the cooking pot, Mike the rooster wobbled away from the
chopping block and after only a few shaky steps, fluffed up
his feathers and went about his business in the barnyard with
all the other poultry. For four long years he went through
the motions of pecking for food, preening his feathers and
tucking what used to be his head under his wing when he
slept. He tried to crow, but only a gurgle came out.
The farmer fed Mike by dropping grain and water into his
gullet opening with an eyedropper.
He was studied by scientists, who determined that an intact
brain stem was keeping Mike's body animated. At the time his
post-cranium survival garnered him much mindful attention in
numerous serious news journals from far and wide. He
eventually did the sideshow circuit with a two-headed calf.
Mike grew and thrived till he finally dropped dead from
choking on a kernel of corn, four years after being
decapitated.
The polywave and the xylowave together set the perimeters of
chaos-dynamics. Like, I'm lucky if my hands write the words
I'm thinking of. Sparks across a small gap in the receiving
circuit indicate reception of the waves radiated by a
transmitter. And anti-time is the wreckage of matter, because
matter is in motion. And turning over dirt is referred to as
digging.
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