The Hallucinated World

From The Dodecahedron by Paul Glennon:

Newton invented a story of a college of shamans who lived on an island far to the north. These shamans, he said, invented history. As long as they lived alone and invented myths for the world, the world would go on. But they had been inventing stories too long now. These wizards were becoming increasingly sleepy, and the longer they slept, the longer the nights were, and the longer the nights were the fewer stories they told. It meant that the world is already exhaustive and exhausting. The shamans themslves were shrinking as the world shrank, and soon they would be too small to think anything but the simplest of tales. Later they would be feeble dwarves who slept all the time, eternal night would descend on them all and the world’s stories would come to an end.

And elsewhere in same:

On Tenebria the monks continued the work of their old abbey, transcribing church texts and chronicling the history of the world. The abbey’s northern location made this difficult. There were months when they were totally without light. This not only stopped them from writing, it also had strange psychological effects. During the dark Arctic winter the monks would hallucinate and imagine they were seeing events in the outer world. They emerged to light each spring to document these visions in their histories. If the message in this bottle is to be believed, there are some six centuries of alternative history inspired by the monks’ nighttime hallucinations.

From Clear to Higher Time by the Blue Humans:

• The Blue Humans featuring Rudolph Grey, “Clear to Higher Time” (19:51)

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