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 Visualize a world where people live in an eternal ball of mass. Imagine a world where space does not exist. What is space? To the people that ask this question, space is what they desire. But how can they know what they want, when they do not know that such a thing exists? This is a world where everything is condensed and touching.
   The population of this world has the yearning to be alone. This need cannot be achieved and as a result, people are on the go. They slide pass neighbors in the market without saying a word and go on ignoring their surroundings. People have the preference to keep to themselves. Why do they have to ask how the other person is doing when they do not have the urge of wanting to know because they already know? In this world, privacy is unheard of. The skeletons in the closet will always surface and the truth will always come out. Secrets rather not be told because they cannot be kept in the first place.
   This is a world where love is difficult to discover. Affection is hard to find in a condensed world. It may seem impossible but whimsical events do come about. Potential lovers are connected by the distance that separates them. The further apart they are, the stronger their love is for each other. This world can be described as a jigsaw puzzle: every person is a potential piece of the complete puzzle picture. The lost pieces that are not found are the ones that desire the unknown space. The only way that they could accomplish their dream is to disappear into the heavens. Even so, the world and their space upon that world will be left by them will be filled by another inhabitant.
   The people that learn to adapt in this world believe that there is a thing such as “space.” That is the only way to survive in a world where space is nonexistence.

 

© Copyright 2000 Linda Pham

All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce please contact Jack C. Straton, University Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 97210-0751, straton@pdx.edu.

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