(17a) Addendum to (17)
The Misha Campaign (109-1121 to 111-1121)
Another Klatrin Experience
Robert has had an experience very similar to his first
one. The entire expansion and contraction of the universe, the communication
revelations, the whole thing. Communication is so strange, it's just
everywhere in symbols and streams of symbols. He walks through suns,
swims through jumpspace, and goes everywhere and nowhere. It's really
just an awesome experience.
When he comes back, the people around him just don't
know how to communicate. It's like they're using primitive grunts.
Yeah, he understands what they're saying, but it's a lot of effort to talk
to them.
At the same time, he's starting to get a natural
understanding of the process of how symbols and language fit together and
how to read it and how write it. How the symbols fit together, the
sequences, how the ideas are grouped, it's just not like any other language.
He is starting to see how to form symbols, how to combine them, how to
build new ones. He hasn't quite grasped number representation, though
he thinks he might be on the right track for it.
He's getting an idea of how it all works, and he
remembers it all when he comes around.
All in all it's a thoroughly enjoyable mind-expanding
experience. He pities the poor people who don't do this, they just
don't get it, they're just stuck with their primitive limited concepts.
Now he can start to get some of the content from
the Digitis data stream. He can figure out that there was
some regular language communication going on, and while a lot of it is
still fuzzy to him, he can get the gist of it. It was sort of giving
the impression of not having to worry, somebody and some knowledge were
not coinciding in the same place, and the same somebody was heading towards
non-existence anyway. But it doesn't specifically say who the somebody
is, and there's nothing to hook the identity into. That seemed to
be the most primary important thing. One thing is certain -- whatever
language they were using was directly related to the language of the black
ship.
Conceptual Ideogram Summary
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continuous-negation
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coincident-in-space-time
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| person-A |
reference-to-knowledge-item(#1)
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activity-vanishing
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concern
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strategic-item
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indeterminate--near-future
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termination-of-timeline |
planned-event(#2)
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near-past
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agent: sender
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completion
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person-A
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life-force
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reference-#2
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person-A
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conceptual-item
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communication
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reference-#1
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physical-item
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intent-to-mislead
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