They say a horizon is a line where the sky touches the
ground.
This is
what they see, and this is what they say. But they could think
for a while before they say something, for a horizon is a line
which can be seen, but which does not exist – it is known,
vastly and commonly, the ground does not touch the sky. It looks
like what we see is much more important than what we know.
Here we
should precise some details. Our language is not the only one
which sets traps for us. So do our eyes. And first of all so
does our mind. Yes. Our mind is a real trickster, no doubt it
is. And what a joker!
Now, it is
not commonly known, it is commonly not known, that there is the
ground (the earth), while there is no sky. The sky has the same
status as the horizon line – we can see it, but it does not
exist. In fact, the sky is but a colour. However, we will not
discuss right now and right here what colour is and what colour
is not. Nor what blue is, or grey... There is no sky, but there
is the air. The air does exist, but we can't see it – we can see
the sky, but it doesn't exist. It happens so. Neither here, nor
now, we will discuss whether it happens often or seldom, whether
it is a unique case, very specific, or maybe a rule, a
phenomenon quite boring due to its commonness.
The air
does exist and it touches the ground. Everywhere. In every
place. And if so, then we should speak about a plane of contact,
although we know a plane consists of lines, and lines consist of
points.
It is
different in Liberland. A bit different. In Liberland the sky is
the ground. In Liberland Heaven is the sky, while Earth is the
ground. Thus Earth is Heaven and vice versa. (It is necessary to
add vice versa just to
avoid any misunderstandings.)
Is the sky the air? Rather not. If there is no sky, then it can not be anything.
Besides, the sky can be seen, while the air can not be seen.
Can anything invisible be visible in the same moment? Well, we
won't give a firm answer bringing us no doubts, for first we
should ask if there is any air in Liberland. However we will
not ask this question right
now, because it is not needed right now. If the ground is the
sky and the sky is the earth, then we don't need the air at
all to solve the problem of a horizon.
If the ground is the sky and the sky is the earth and the
earth is the ground, it means the sky touches the ground and
the earth touches the sky everywhere, in every place, on the
whole plane, on the whole solid. This would mean the horizon
is everywhere. But it is not.
It is not like that, because the
horizon is not the contact line between the sky and the
ground. The horizon is the border, the limit. What is beyond the horizon can not
obtain by our eyesight. Nor by our mind. The horizon is a line
where obtainable touches unobtainable, where the area covered
by our eyesight touches the area which our eyesight can't
cover. As well as where the area covered by our mind touches
the area not covered by our mind. This border is not steady.
It moves constantly. It keeps wandering with our eyesight,
with our eyes. It keeps wandering with our mind.
It is not
like that in Liberland. In Liberland the horizon is firm,
stable, constant, immobile. It is a border which can be
trespassed easily by eyesight, hearing and mind. So, it is a
border between what and what? It's hard to say and to write.
Maybe between Liberland and non-Liberland? Maybe. Probably.
The
horizon in Liberland is not round, because it is not a circle.
But it could be a circle. Sometimes it even is, however very
rarely, so rarely it would be better to write: one day it
would be a circle. Most often, almost always, the horizon
in Liberland is rectangle. It can happen it has more or less
angles than four, but it happens really very seldom, though more
often than the total lack of angles.
Due to this fact, the horizon here
can be easily trespassed, thus one can easily fall into an
abyss. In non-Liberland one can not fall into an abyss, since
one can not reach the horizon. Yet this does not mean
Liberland is a dangerous land while non-Liberland is secure.
Trespassing the horizon is absolutely safe, because the abyss
we fall into, like any other abyss, has no bottom, is
bottomless, so we will not get broken and
crash into pieces.
Falling into this abyss is just a kind of flying. If we find
good and friendly currents it can happen we will fly around
Liberland and come back from the other side. But it can happen
we will not find helping currents and we will not come back to
where we fall down, but we mustn't draw the conclusion the
horizon can be trespassed only one way – such a conclusion is
absolutely wrong.
It's
something extraordinary, though not in Liberland, that so rigid
and firm shape of the horizon does not determine the shape of
what is inside. The interior of this rectangle is not a
rectangle – it's amorphous. And not flat. Inside this rectangle,
or a polygon, writing more precisely, can be a bottomless abyss
absolutely amorphous. Can be and is.
It means,
trespassing here the horizon we don't fall into the abyss, but
we jump out of the abyss. We jump from one abyss into the other.
This is
how it is here.
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