{"id":2222,"date":"2010-04-30T18:56:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2010-05-01T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T03:28:11","slug":"fnoor-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/fnoor-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Fnoor Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week or two ago, I did a post called \u201cTrue Names and Fnoor<\/a>,\u201d\u009d and, thanks in part to the good comments, I\u2019ve been thinking about the notion of fnoor some more.<\/p>\n


\nIs the purple jelly shoe by that little chair a piece of fnoor?<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, I\u2019m using \u201cfnoor\u201d\u009d to mean \u201csome odd aspect of a person\u2019s world that leads a person to suspect that there is more to this world that he or she had imagined.\u201d\u009d The fnoor might indicate that the world is in fact a virtual reality. Or the fnoor might suggest that there are holes in the world leading to other realities. Or the fnoor might indicate that there are numerous simultaneously active levels of reality. \u201cSomething is happening here, but you don\u2019t know what it is—Do you Mister Jones?\u201d\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n


\nCrawlin\u2019 Lichen.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the blog post mentioned above, I sketched some ideas for a story with the working title, \u201cFnoor,\u201d\u009d but my ideas for the story are still expanding and taking on new shapes. I won\u2019t try and describe the new details of what I\u2019m planning, but I will put down some antic thoughts about fnoor that I\u2019ve been having.<\/p>\n


\nRudySanskritBud in the Rudy set<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Certainly, a natural place to look for fnoor is in deep zooms of heretofore unexplored computer fractals, such as the Rudy set (based on cubic Mandelbrot sets). I found the Sanskrit Bud inside a glob of the RudyRockets image last week, and it fully boggles my mind. What I like especially here is that it has the look of a sacred mandala with Sanskrit ideograms written around it. <\/p>\n


\nNature\u2019s fnoor is a dewdrop in a spiral.<\/em><\/p>\n

If one person can find the fnoor with a computer program, another person should be able to perceive it via meditation.<\/p>\n


\nWho actually writes these things?<\/em><\/p>\n

A wholly different notion of fnoor in fiction is used in Pynchon\u2019s Crying of Lot 49-<\/em>\u2014where the fnoor emerges as signs seen on the street, or on bathroom walls. The signs tell the alert eye that there is indeed another order to reality.<\/p>\n


\nAha!<\/em><\/p>\n

Going overboard on this into fully paranoid schizophrenia, you can start seeing messages everywhere and\u2014for the purposes of an SF story in any case\u2014who\u2019s to say your wrong. Is it really a \u201ccoincidence\u201d\u009d that the dregs in this coffee cup are the same beige as the paint on this quotidien street fixture whose purpose is\u2014what? <\/p>\n


\nGoin\u2019 to heaven…<\/em><\/p>\n

What if somehow you could break free of your enslavement to the laws of perspective and their insistence that if somethin is small, then it\u2019s far away. What if his ladder did in fact lead directly to the phone pole? Plug into that terabyte cable and hear the Voice of the Sky.<\/p>\n


\nMon ami Alexandre.<\/em><\/p>\n

Crooked, warped, unexpected\u2014the fnoor wants to take you someplace new. Imagine finding a heretofore unknown neighborhood of San Francisco called Fnoortown, where you can buy a 20,000 sq. ft. house for $100! There\u2019s plenty of room for everyone, as the houses are the size of atoms or maybe even smaller than that\u2014maybe down below the bogus curtain of the Planck-length limit.<\/p>\n


\nRight this way.<\/em><\/p>\n

Follow me, baby, it\u2019s just around the before-ner. Everyone\u2019s waiting for you, and the fnoor is fine.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

RudyHedgehog, see theRudy set<\/a> post for explanations, where you can download the params from UltraFractal.<\/em><\/p>\n

And click here for a humongo 3 Meg RudyHedgehog <\/a>you can get lost in. One unreliable narrator describes it thus:<\/p>\n

It showed a shape like a sea-urchin, with a curlicue dangling down towards it. Endless parades of pastel elephants were marching into the slits between the sea-urchin spikes. St. Elmo\u2019s Fire masts swept up into the terraced space between the urchin and the curlicue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week or two ago, I did a post called \u201cTrue Names and Fnoor,\u201d\u009d and, thanks in part to the good comments, I\u2019ve been thinking about the notion of fnoor some more. Is the purple jelly shoe by that little chair a piece of fnoor? Again, I\u2019m using \u201cfnoor\u201d\u009d to mean \u201csome odd aspect of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}