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face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'>Karl wrote:</span></font><span lang=EN-GB> the
knowledge and ability to surf both waves and to connect with one’s
alternate selves, be these laterally or temporally distinct. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxsplast style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
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"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>JEB: . . . unless of course they are not totally ‘distinct’
at all but overlap. That ‘continuity’ is not absolute is something
I have been arguing all along, but for reality, not fantasy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>Also, the statement that </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB>“one who remembers is partly identical to one who is
perceiving/had perceived;” </span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>is a truism. That “</span></font><font
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lang=EN-GB>Time is a recurring element; </span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>either means nothing or is
irrelevant. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Fis [mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Karl Javorszky<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> vendredi, 26 mars 2021 11:24<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> fis<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Fis] Murakami and Swift</span></font><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Murakami and
Swift
2021 03 26</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>These last, long weeks
being very much conductive to staying at home, one would address the task of
reading a long novel or two. Haruki Murakami’s “1Q84” and
“Killing Commendatore” touch on subjects that are, in this
person’s opinion, worthy of discussing in this present
scientific-intellectual debating society. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Let us put Murakami in a
connection with Jonathan Swift. The Irishman has presaged with his
“Gulliver’s Travels” massive changes in the perception of
royalty, authorities, rules and conventions. Although King Charles II was tried
and executed in 1649, the Restoration twelve years later has eradicated the
positive connotations to getting rid of a ruler. Up to Gulliver, it seems that
the common understanding has continuously accepted the religious-mythical
connotations of political force. The belief in authorities and their possession
of transcendent powers has been the unspoken background of the idea of a
functioning society. Swift has challenged the prevailing meme, by substituting
it by a narrative, where Kings are minuscule, pompous dotards. The slogans of
state get deflated if the common cause is reduced to the conflict of opening up
the breakfast egg on which end. You can’t adore a God-Emperor if he is
that naïve, completely lacking common sense and decency. Laughing about a
mighty ruler is a necessary step towards guillotining the formerly mighty same.
As a medicine, Swift’s Gulliver has the characteristics of a <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>depot forte. </span></i>Its effects establish
themselves almost imperceptibly, over a long time period. It took over three
generations from Gulliver to the French Revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Murakami appears to me to
exert a similar influence on contemporary thinking as Swift had. It may take
another generation or two to be able to speak in rational terms about his
ideas. Like the ideas brought home by Gulliver from his Travels, the ideas
expressed in 1Q84 elicit in their reader a smile and a wonderment, ending in a
relieved realisation: this is only a phantasy, a tale, a story; this is nothing
real. Swift has stated, although not <i><span style='font-style:italic'>expressis
verbis,</span></i> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:
0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:39.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Kings
come in all kinds of varieties;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:39.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>There
is no unified, general rule of how Kings are to be;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:39.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Kings
maintain their rule by earthly methods of power and by elaborate memes;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxsplast style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:39.0pt'><font size=3
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Almost
anybody has more common sense and decency than the Kings.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Murakami does the same
work of destroying, levelling and salting intellectual empires by stating, in
the guise of an elaborate cloak-and-dagger sci-fi mystery phantasy:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraph style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:
0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Realities
come in all kinds of varieties;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>There
is a specific variety of non-standard reality, which people (not: Murakami)
call metaphysics;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>This
parallel reality is actually merged with the common reality, deviating visibly
from that only in specific circumstances;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>There
are rules and axioms and protagonists in metaphysics very similar to those in
common reality (“physics”);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>If
we had different sensory organs, we could perceive parts of the other
(“metaphysical”) reality, possibly losing some perceptions of the
normal reality (if we could sense the Earth’s magnetism, we might not be
able to distinguish some colors: we would live in a different reality);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font> The
density of relations in the other variant influences actual facts in this
variant (the density of charge in the parallel world of relations causes an
actual lightning in the world of realised facts; the density of desire causes
space to conflate/merge and people to synchronise/co-resonate);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Both
variants are subject to identical axioms of inner consistency of the sequel
being a deduction/corollary of the present: both worlds have an inner logic,
which deviates only partly from the logic of the parallel world;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Time
is a recurring element; one who remembers is partly identical to one who is
perceiving/had perceived;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>The
continuity is not really continuous, not even for one and the same individual;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>Aside
from one global clock, about which we do not speak, there are local clocks
which run at differing speeds;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxspmiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>It
is possible for the two worlds to merge and to disunite without any problems,
the worlds can /and do/ exist alongside each other;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=gmail-msolistparagraphcxsplast style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font>The
moral of the story on the example of the protagonist heroes is, that a full,
ideal life includes the knowledge and ability to surf both waves and to connect
with one’s alternate selves, be these laterally or temporally distinct.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Well, of course, a phantasy is a phantasy. Thank God,
thank our Kings, thank our Schools we can well recognise a phantasy from
hard-core reality. Heaven forbid establishing Murakami’s unified dual
space-time concept as a credible and sensible idea of which the time has come. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Murakami’s idea of the parallel world appears to
me like a smear, lubrication, veil, packaging cellophane foil or skin. It is
well attached to the surface of the factual world, and agglomerates only at
times into such droplets or crumplets which modificate the actual things, all
the while dramatically influencing the properties of the things they lubricate
and separate at the same time. One would hope that time and patient research
will bring to the surface such rational words, connected by rationally
imaginable relations, which support the vision of two narratives running
concurrently: one details what are the facts and one details what are the
expectations, based on the facts so far. The two rhetorical strands could
support Murakami’s vision. In case one had such a story to tell, about
facts and expectations based on facts, one could call that what Murakami calls
the Q-time/space also <i><span style='font-style:italic'>the information
content </span></i>of the story. This point makes the literary work a suitable
subject for a submission to FIS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Happy and healthy Eastern to you all!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Karl<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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8.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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