Exploding Mirror

November 26th, 2007 Fred McVittie

Before the beginning was no thing and no thing was before the beginning, and in the beginning was no darkness and no light, and no space for the light to illuminate and for the darkness to consume. There was no time before the beginning and no time for time to be absent from. No skin marked the separation of nothing for there was no separation and nothing to be separated from. There was no zero before the beginning as there was no number to be subtracted from itself to generate such a zero, no one any where, no where, no how, and no asking of any question whatsoever. Nor was there a vacuum, or absence, or silence, or the absence of silence, or the absence of the sound of silence. There was no Simon and Garfunkel before the beginning, no old friends and new friends, no best friends and worst enemies, and the qualities and values of friends and enemies alike were not present. No face moved upon the surface of any water, and there were no dried-up riverbeds to mark the water’s departure, and no departure for the water and the river and the face. No thing, no at, no all. No holes punched in the fabric and no damaged goods requiring the attention of an expert. No thing provided a destination from which something might originate and nothing had the powers of containment from which something might emerge. In the beginning was no ‘in’, and at the beginning was no ‘at’.

The beginning was the beginning of the beginning and the beginning was the beginning of the bang, and the beginning was cracked in the shock of the bang.

The broken beginning was without form but the form that was the break, and nothing was each part of the break other than its similarity to the other part of the break. The two parts of the break were as the parts of a broken mirror in which each reflects the contents only of the other because there can be no other thing to reflect. And there was no difference between the parts of the break save that they were not the other part of the break, and the only contents of each part was the part that was the other.

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