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The map of fate is an indecomposable continuum. The territory is dynamical, not geographical. In the probabilistic chart of doom each point on the boundary between any two fates is on the boundary between all fates.
Note: In mathematics and topology, this is called the Wada property, after a practitioner of the traditional Japanese mathematical discipline called Wasan, name of Wada Nei (died 1847). Wasan math is similar in spirit to other Japanese arts such as the tea ceremony, haiku, or flower arranging.
His topological excursion is called the "Lakes of Wada" in his memory. A black swan cruises in one lake, a white swan glides in another, a goose honks in another, a ruddy duck patrols yet another lake, a stern-wheel riverboat steams here, a UFO hovers there...each lake a destiny, and we stand bestride the shore of every lake, and we cannot easily predict which lake we'll end up in, because we possess the Wada property in excelsis.
In the past, you might have seen a rat in this space on Friday morning. But today there is no flash-frozen tableau of George W. Ratbastard and other inaction figures, presented for the cynical and despairing amusement of my fellow surrender monkeys. There are only kittens.
Dr. Omed rescued them from the unused ductwork in the crawlspace under our new house. The tale of this rescue is fairly entertaining--Have you ever fished for cats down a metal duct? Envision a fifty year old fat man doing a bad imitation of a pregnant python, slithering under pipes and joists in black mud and standing water...and then there were the mysterious and eerie golf balls, rolling down the ducts and appearting in front of yours truly like Rover the Weather Balloon herding Number Six in the Prisoner. I can see one in the backyard right now. However, I don't have time to tell the tale in full right now, as I have to work today. Instead let me introduce you to Catnurse Mother Naamah, in whose capable hands and passionate heart the care of these feline waifs have been committed.
Or perhaps I should let her introduce herself--go to http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/ and scroll down. After you've read all the kitten entries, and been fatally hypnotised by all the kitten pics and kitten videos, you can totter off to your day's busy, busy, busy, making faint mewing sounds and purring, one of a growing army of duct kitten zombies.
