Notes & a slowly continuing draft of Scene 11 of Chapter Four

         Mid-morning. You have been entertaining Owen for about an hour. Carol is presently giving him his bottle. Lots of work and focus. Burping and the whole business. Arms and legs is almost constant motion. Fifty facial impressions a minute, at least that is the way you see it.

         Late afternoon. The day has gone by with a nap and time spent watching Owen. You also updated your, until now, unused Link-In account.

I think I am procrastinating because I am really out of my league here. I assume that as I can go no further I should concentrate my imagination within the vast framework recently established. However, it is too much for me to deal with.

Go to the chapter, orndorff. – Amorella.

Paragraph three of Scene 11:

“Cognition is a product of the thinking process; sentience is a sensation, a conscious awareness; consciousness is an awareness of self and facts of existence; ideas are formulated thoughts; and imagination is a mental image based on logic, that the basis in here. Energy is active effort; non-matter is an absence of matter; waves are formulations; and particles are quantities. That’s how I, the Narrator, sees it. These then are the properties of the tree of thought and light balanced by the middle lantern-like sleeve of surrounding thought.”

As I write this I need to show that this energy is a form that does not exhibit power. This is the most important property of this unknown form of energy in my mind. Perhaps I have to change the original definition of energy in this paragraph. I do not know the word or words that will cover this because physics shows energy to have force and power. How this form of energy holds the analogous tree in its form and function (the physical universe of each leaf) I have no idea how to construct so that it has any potential as plausibility.

Strange that you would insist on this unknown property in an unknown static-like energy.

This concept is intuitively driven, that’s all I can say. I am somewhat surprised myself, to make such a deal of it in a fiction no less.

Enough for tonight. I will consider your elementary addition to physics. Meanwhile, you will have to do some googling also. Send Doug a note explaining your predicament. Perhaps we can steer a course around it that would satisfy this problem.

            This has to be as realistic as anything else in the books, Amorella. Imagination within reason, that is the only way I can see to put these books together so they do not have a ‘fantasy’ label placed on them. Hard science fiction is okay, but I would rather they remain ‘literary fiction’.