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in principle, the notion of a continually expanding universe is infinite in the same way that the series of numbers is infinite. so for any number n, there is an n + 1.
it is, i suppose, possible that our universe is an aspect of a relative trivial structure within a higher-order system or system of systems. i like to think that we're maybe part of a lima bean or part of a molecule in the upper left corner of a cheap candelabra in some giant mobile home.
personally, like i said i think the infinite is a negative concept, the product of negation, a purely formal construct. what's interesting how more how it's used, so what it comes to mean for communities, how different frameworks impact upon projections as to what's Beyond or Other in this way. it's also interesting to think about why it is that not all symbolic systems include a notion of the infinite. so it's a particularity.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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