KNOWLEDGE IS A SPIRAL
That is what Mr. Viktor said to Nicholas in one of their more and more frequent meetings at the Tasty Rumor Café. Not a straight line. Not just a fact or a bunch of facts. But also what you feel. Transfactual. Transrational. Part of the ninety per cent or more of the human brain that humans don’t use. And if you plot your experiences in a mathematical way, it’s something like a spiral. To put it in a non-mathematical metaphor, it’s something like a roller coaster that brings you up and down at different speeds at different times. You rise, you drop in free fall, and you linger ready to tip down at the top. And although you come back to where you began at the end of the ride, you’re changed by the experience on the inside, sometimes in most mysterious ways. And someti
