Friday, September 28, 2007

De profundis (secundus)

It has been decided that the Mem and I should take a short holiday to recuperate from the stresses of our divergent realities. Thus, upon the weekend, we will be travelling together and in the company of understanding friends to our divergent destinations; she, the Mem, will be spending a pleasant week on the Northumbrian coast whilst I will be visiting Ganymede and testing the viability of the Struthius Warpdrive as well as seeking a suitable site for erecting the first Jovian system observatory which is currently taking shape in my back garden.

I have received a communication from my old friend and mentor Professor Premchandra (Omigosh) Chukkabhutti whose work in ultra low temperature physics has inspired the “Struthius Warpdrive”; he asks me to point out that should a failure occur* in the struthical containment field it will probably be due to the nails and poor quality glue that I have been forced to use as I ran out of screws - and not his design for the freezer unit!

He further points out that I have not made it clear that the nature of the “struthical” is so strange as it does not and cannot exist in nature and can only be described by a mathematical model involving the Clausius-Clapeyron equation modified by a string of sub-variable trans-ordinal Hamiltonians.

The good professor is due to visit India to lecture at the University of Jolliphur on his research into more efficient local climate control systems and will demonstrate the modified system fitted to his car.

We wish him well.

Well, there it is then, a week away existing in two mutually exclusive realities, the Mem in realis primus and I in realis hedonis. I’m buggered if I know where our friends will end up but that’s another day. I must sign off now as my cork leg has swollen due to the damp weather.

Sincerely, Klaus W. Schmellingpantz


* heaven forefend!!

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