Startrek: The Next Generation Body Electric

Began Sunday November 5, 2015

Wesley heard psychic screams of terror. He witnessed a black hole swallow surrounding stars. Data's searching for Lol. He put Juliena on his ship and sent her to safety

"Training keeps a warrior sharp." Worf

StarFleet offerered Worf command but he refused. Wesley told the Travelers about the destruction to the universe he had just witnessed--chaos ensued. He saw his mentor and asked whats going on. They tried to stop the machines but couldn't. Wesley's gone to try to take the machines on alone. Q sent him to talk with Picard. Akharin, the Immortal, was being held prisoner by the machines. They wanted to learn how to make a positronic matrix. Akharin agreed to save his daughter. 

Data met with a robotic spider on a planet. The robot mistook him for his father. Wesley interupted a monotonous  staff meeting to his mothers relief. Wesley led the crew of the Enterprise to the Machines.

Picard wanted an armada of ships and StarFleet approved it, but Wesley said it will be to strenuous on him to mask an armada of ships verses one.

"In times of danger and combat, soldiers often fight not for their people or their ship, or even their unit, but for their friends and kin who stand beside them." Worf

Wesley was in a universe where he met duplicates of himself and had to fight them for survival.

The Enterprise made it to the machine's core and found Wesley's ship, they were transporting it aboard. They identified the Machine as an ancestor of V'Ger, a probe that was launched in the mid-twentieth century& went through a wormhole &was reprogrammed by AI to destroy life and collect data. Worf and the away team made first contact with Body-Electric. Body-Electric called carbon units not true life forms. Taurik, the Vulcan security officer on the away mission, got Body-Electric give its current directives and task parameters.

Picard and the crew were going to start to communicate with the machines. Data found Akharin. Data was lead from his cell, but before he promised the Immortal he would save Rea, his daughter. 

The Enterprise needs to find Data to talk to the Machine-Electric Body. LaForge asked Data for help, but he couldn't since he was in the Machine Electric. Wesley offered to save Rene and Beverly but Beverly refused. Data got control of Gatt with Nanites. Rhea was asking Data what was next for them after they escaped. Data wants Rhea to help him raise Lol. Data had a choice to let Rhea live or die, or have Alkerin live or die, he chose Alkerin. Data is back aboard the Enterprise. Picard and the crew are glad he is safe. Data is fixing Gatt and then he let him go, because Gatt wasn't in control of his actions while under the control of the Body Electric.

"In the distant future, the expansion of the universe will separate galaxies and eventually even stars, by such and ever growing distances that for an observer in any given system the rest of the cosmos will look dark and completely empty. Even now there are parts of our universe beyond our view. This limit of the observable universe is the cosmic light horizon." 

"We create to deny the inevitability of our own obliviation."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

I began this book on Thursday November 15, 2019 and finished Wednesday January 15, 2020. It was by Madeleine L'Engle. It contained 197pp. It is the third story in the Wrinkle in Time trilogy. This book was written in 1978.

Meg and Calvin got married. Meg was preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for the Twins, Sandy and Dennys. Dennys had become a doctor. Meg was pregnant.

"Charles Wallace and his father were deep in concentration, bent over the model they were building of  tesseract: the square squared, and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time. It was a beautiful and creation of steel wires and ball bearings and Lucite,  parts of it revolving, parts of it swinging like pendulums."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 404

"Thanksgiving dinner is practically the only meal Mother cooks in the kitchen--instead of out in the lab on her Bunsen burner. Not that we're criticizing, after all those Bunsen-burner stews did lead directly to the Nobel Prize." Scientists of any nature, have a difficult time separating their work, from their family life. They tend to merge them through no fault of their own, it is just circumstance."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet pp. 405-406

Fortinbras died a good death. Mr. Murry said, if a dog doesn't find them soon then they will look for a dog.

"It was not the usual place for Mr. Murry to receive a call from the president. Over the years he had been consulted by the White House on matters of physics and space travels and other conversations had been serious, many disturbing, but this, Meg felt was different, was causing the warm room to feel colder, look less bright."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 409

"We are responsible for the acutely serious oil and coal shortages, the defoliation of the trees, the grave damage to the atmosphere, and he is going to make us pay."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet pp. 411-412

"Farandolea are so minuscule and insignificant that it doesn't seem that they could have any importance, and yet they can live in a symbiotic relationship with mitochondria--"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 415

"And mitochondria provide us with our energy, so if anything affects our farandolea that can affect our mitochondria--"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 415

"We've forgotten what's worth saving and what's not, or we wouldn't be in this mess."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 416

"And the sun with its brightness,

And the snow with its whiteness,

And the fire with all the strength it hath--"

Mrs. O'Keefe 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 417

"And the-the lightning with it rapid warmth,

And the winds with their swiftness upon the path--

And the sea with its deepens,

And the rocks with their steepness

And the earth with its starkness--

All these I place.

By Gods almighty help and grace,

Between myself and the powers of darkness."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 418

"You know my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our hearts and homes."

Mr. Murry 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 424

"Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create. The fire is to help and heal."

Charles Wallace 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 426

"Sleep, in any event was far away, lost somewhere in that time which had shattered by the president's phone call."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 428

"It was as though too much conscious intensity of thinking made her brain rigid and closed, and if she breathed slowly and deeply it opened up and memories and thoughts were freed to come to her consciousness where she could share them with Charles Wallace."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 430

"Kything was being was able to be with someone else, no matter how far they might be, was talking in a language that was deeper than words. Charles Wallace was born with this gift, slowly Meg became able to read the thoughts he sent her, to know what he wanted her to know. Kything went far beyond ordinary ESP and while it came to Charles Wallace as naturally as breathing, for Meg it took intense concentration. Charles Wallace and Calvin were the only two people Meg could give and receive this language that went far beyond words."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 433

They found a dog. Charles Wallace named her Anada which means that joy in existence without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.

"I am not real. And yet in a sense I am the only reality."

Gaudin

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 442

"There are many who would like to let you wipe yourselves out, except it would affect us all; who knows what might happen? And as long as their are a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still brothers and sisters."

Gaudior

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 443

"Has the world lost it's joy? Is that why we're in such a mess?"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 445

"The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and the light and dark once more knew eachother, and were part of the joy."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 447

"For unicorns it is easier to move about in time than in space. Until we learn more what we are meant to do, I am more comfortable in the same Where."

Gaudior

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 449

Charles Wallace was being called to go into somebody's body. Kything is like going in someone else.

"There is always a moment when there is a Might-Have-Been."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 452

"Before the harmonies were broken, unicorns and winds danced together with joy and no fear. Now there are Echthroi who are greedy for the wind, as for all else. So there are times when they ride the wind and turn it into a tornado, and you had better be grateful we didn't ride one of those--it's always a risk. But we did come to when I wanted to give us a little time to catch our breaths."

Gaudior 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 452-453

"Everything that happens in the created order, no matter how small, has its effect. If you are angry that anger is added to all the hate with which the Echthroi will destrot the melody and destroy the ancient harmonies. When you are loving that lovingness joins the music of the spheres."

Gaudior 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 457

"The People of the Wind were gentle and harmonious. On rare occasions when there was a difference of opinion it was mediated by the Harmonizer, and his judgment was always accepted. Fish were caught, flesh shot with a bow and arrow, never more than needed. Each person in the tribe knew what they were born to do, and no gift was considered greater or less than another. The Harmonizer held a position no more lofty than the youngest cook just learning to build a fire or clean a fish."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 458-459

Charles Wallace and Gaudior were blown into a projection, which is a future the Echthroi want to make real

"Whatever the Echthroi wanted to make real would be something fearful."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 464

"They moved through the time- spinning reaches of the far galaxy and he realized that the galaxy itself was part of a mighty orchestra, and each star and planet within the galaxy added it's own instruments to the music of the spheres. As long as the ancient harmonies were sung, the universe would not entirely lose its joy." 

Gaudior 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 467-468

Gaudior commanded Charles Wallace to sing to stay awake

"They hide the dead even from themselves, that their spirits may not come to the lake and keep the fish away."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 476

"We do not fear the spirits of the dead. When there has been love during life, why should that change after death? When one departs we have a feast of honor, and then we send the spirit to its journey amongst the stars. On clear nights we feel the singing of their love."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 476-477

"The people of the Wind are people of peace. Always we have lived in amenity with those Across the Lake."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 483

"Again the face grew larger and larger in the dark oval was no longer a face of a baby, but a man with an arrogant and angry Mein."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 486

"You will do good for your people, El Zaron, Little Blue Eyes. Your eyes are an omen, a token for peace. The prayer has been answered in your blue for mirth, blue for birth."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 487

"I keep almost remembering, and then its as if someone slams a door on my memory."

Charles Wallace A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 493

"Echthroi, probably. They try to block anything that might be a clue to the Might-Have-Been they don't want you to discover."

Gaudior A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 443

In 1865 the Ku Klux Klan was founded and Alice in Wonderland was written, Rudyard Kipling was born, and Valaine wrote Poemes Saturniens, John Stuart Mill wrote Auguste Lomete and Positivism, and Purdue, Cornell and the Universities of Maine were founded, Matthew Maddox The Horn of Joy

Future influencing the past

"It's less dangerous to go elsewhen first, than to try to go elsewhen and elsewhere simultaneously."

Gaudior A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 500

"I have learned from The People of The Wind that 'tis no harm to hold a secret in the heart."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 505

"It's old, very old, the prayer for a blue-eyed baby to keep the strength of the prince from the sea within the Wind People, and the words may have changed over the years. And I have changed for I have made my life with white people, as the Golden Prince made his with the Wind People. For live he stayed with the princess of strange land, and made her way his way. For love I leave my people and stay with Ritchie, and my love is deep, deep, for me to be able to leave my home. I sing the prayer because it is in my blood, and must be sung; and yet I wonder if my child will be able to know the Indian half of himself?"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 509

"Hate never did anyone any good."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 513

"Change is the way of the world."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 513

Ritchie Clawcue just had a boy

He was named Brandon

"People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet their own."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 518

"People do not like other people to be different."

Goody Lawcae

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 518

"The very stars sing as they turn in their heavenly dance, sing praise of the one who created them."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 523

"With Zylle in his fateful hour

I call on the Heavons with its power

And the sun with its brighness,

And the snow with its whiteness,

And the fire with all the strength it hath,

And the lightning with its rapid wrath."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 532

"Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in it's own time."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 535

"Gaudior's breath came in silver steamers. He had folded his wings into his flanks to prevent the Echthroid Wind from breaking them. Boy and unicorn were flung through the endless time and space."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 542

Gaudior was unconscious from their journey, within space and time but then awoke in the middle of an ocean.

"Nothing really has to taste that disagreeable. But then I am not accustomed to any food except starlight and moonlight."  

A Swiftly Tilting Planet  Gaudior p. 551

Gaudior took Charles to the hatching ground. Not all unicorns come from eggs only time traveling ones. Gaudior gave Charles Wallace an icicle with healing properties. Charles Wallace rolled in the healing snow then asked Gaudior where all the other Unicorns were.

"Only the time travelers come to the hatching ground, and during the passage of the small moon they can be about other business, for the small moon casts its warmth on the eggs. I brought you here, to this place, and at this moon so we'd be alone."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet Gaudior p. 554

"Some of them think mankind is deadly."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet Gaudior p.555

"Those of us that have been around the galaxies know that such thinking is foolish. It's always easy to blame others. And I have learned being with you, that many of my preconceptions about mortals were wrong."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet Gaudior p.555

Charles Wallace witnessed the birth of a unicorn .

"Stories are like children. They grow old in their own way."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet 

Grandma Maddox p. 568

"Hate hurts the hater more in the hated." 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet 

Grandma Maddox p. 591

Mortman pushed Chuck down the stairs because Chuck defended Beezie from him.

""Charles Wallace!" He listened. The voice sounded like Gaudior, and yet it was not Gaudior, and he no longer saw the silver beauty of the unicorn nor the light of the horn. Nothing was visable, not even darkness. Something was happening, and he did not know what. He was still within Chuck, and yet he was intensely conscious of himself as Charles Wallace and something was pulling him.""

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 589

"Slowly the rampant, out of control speed lessened, and the planet resumed its normal pace. Colors stopped their kaleidoscopic dance and stayed in place. Smells became identifiable once more: coffee; bread; apples. Beezie: the gold was not as brilliant as it had been, but it was still Beezie. And their mother: the blue was cloudy now, hardly blue at all, closer to the grey of the rain clouds, Grandma: where is Grandma's smell? Why is their emptiness? Where is the green?"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 602

"Lords of blue and Lords of gold,

Lords of winds and waters wild, 

Lords of time that's growing old,

When will come the season mild?

When will come blue Madoc's child?"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 606

"Chuck walked through a spring evening, smelling of growing grass, and blossoms drifting from the trees. He walked over the fields, over the brook, drinking the water rushing with melting snow, lifting his head, clambering to his feet, going on to the flat rock. Pain walked with him, and their was a dark veil of clouds between his eyes and the world. If a chair was pulled out of place he walked into it. Trees and rocks did not move; he felt safer at that rock than anywhere else."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 607

"As the veil deepened and darkened, his inner vision lightened. When the weather was fine he kay out on the rock all day, looking up toward the sky and seeing pictures, pictures more vivid than anything he had seen with unveiled eyes. His concentration was so intense that he became part of what was happening in the pictures. Sometimes in the evenings he told Beezie about them, pretending they were dreams, in order not to upset her."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet Chuck p. 609

"Lords of space and Lords of time,

Lords of blessing, Lord of grace,

Who is in the warmer clime?

Who will follow Madoc's rhyme? 

Blue will alter time and space."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 610

"I went to war, thinking of myself as Galahad, out to free fellow human beings from intolerable bondage of slavery. But it wasn't as simple as that. There were other, less pure issues being faught over, with little concern for the souls which would perish for nothing more grand than political greed, corruption, and conniving power."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 626-627

"ymdroi gyda diflastod as anabaith madog wrth ystried cyflwar guladei ededigaeth, lle'r oedd br

aud un ymladd yn erbyn braud hydnes yr oedd petel Duweihun wedi peidio a gofalu am feibion dynion."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 630

"Slavery is evil, God knows, but war is evil, for evil, evil."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 631

"We're still bleeding from the wounds. It's a primordial pattern, left us from Cain and Abel, a net we can't seem to break out of. And unless it is checked it will destroy us entirely."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 637

"What happens in one time, can make a difference in what happen in another time,  far more than we realize."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 639

"As the days begins to lengthen, the cold begins to strengthen."

Matthew Maddox 

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 640

Matt gave Zillow money to go to Vesputa and be with Bran.

"What happens in one time can make a difference in what happens  in another, far more than we realize."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 639

"Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 639

"Lords of melody and song,

Lords of roses burning bright,

Blue and right the ancient wrongs,

Tough the way is dark and long,

Blue will shine with loving light."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 647

Meg and Mrs. O'Keefe found Charles Wallace white as death on the star-watching rock.

"I place all Heaven with it's power,

And the Sun with its brightness,

And the snow with its whiteness,

And the fire with all the strength it hath,

And the lightning with it rapid wrath,

And the wind with their swiftness along their path,

And the sea with its deepness,

And the rocks with their steepness,

And the earth with its starkness,

All these I place,

By God's almighty, help and grace,

Between myself and the powers of darkness."

A Swiftly Tilting Planet p. 651

This was the finale in the trilogy of The Wrinkle in Time set. I found it apealing and it led me to a lot of new ideas and aspects. In reading the set I found the growth of the characters as well as myself was a pure flow and joy in the moment.

Dark Matter

I started reading Dark Matter Wednesday June 26, 2019 and finished reading it on July 17, 2019. It has 340 pages. It was by Blake Crouch. He is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-creator of Good Behavior on TNT based on his Letty Dobesh novels. His novels have been translated into more than thirty languages and have sold over a million copies. Blake lives in Colorado with his family.

"What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened"

T.S. Elliot "Burnt Norton"

"One thing to raise a little boy, another entirely when a person on the brink of adulthood looks at you for wisdom." 

Dark Matter Blake Crouch p. 3 

In saying that I realize that we all have our own gifts to share and should be respected for that. We all are a mixture of our different facets we take on in life.

After talking with Ryan about the future he could've had Jason got hit by a car but survived. Which brings into question is this whole story of a comatose victim or did it actually occur?

"It's a beautiful thing about youth. There's a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damming choices have been made, no path committed to and the road forking out is pure unlimited potential." Dark Matter Blake Crouch p. 10 

A childlike wonder which possesses the youthful children  who are forever in their youth and refuse to grow up. These are the new aged youth which are most alive at night and sleep in the day.

Jason is taking hostage and forced to drive somewhere by a masked man. He  tries to text his wife for help but the abductor catches him. The abductor forces Jason to strip when he vacates his car.

"The dead don't feel fear or pain." Blake Crouch Dark Matter p. 24 

There is no proof for this either way. When you die, your body loses all feeling, however you may still feel in thought essence.

Jason escapes, and runs, but has no clue where he is running. He arrives at a beach of Lake Michigan. He gets in a cab and finally goes home. Jason is dropped off at a house very similar to his house but not his own. Jason calls Daniala's cellphone number, a man answers and tells him not to call anymore. Lighton catches up with Jason.

"All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be right." Dark Matter Blake Crouch p. 58 

This is usually the case, but it defies all logic. Logic is not always truth, however truth is logically sound.

Jason goes to the ER a few blocks away. He feels like he's being hollowed out the morning after. The doctor calls Jason's brother Michael.

"Experimental physics -- hell all of science--is about solving problems. However, you can't solve them all at once. There's always a larger, overarching question--the big target. But if you obsess on the sheer enormity of it you lose focus."  

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch pp. 79-80 

You have to focus on a single aspect if not you will be overwhelmed with your lifes experience. You can't achieve any of the miraculous outcomes if you are overwhelmed.

"The key is to start small. Focus on solving problems you can answer. Build some dry ground to stand on. And after you've put in the work, and if you're lucky, the mystery of the overarching question becomes knowable. Like stepping slowly back from a photo montage to witness the ultimate image revealing itself." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 80

In life it is good to be driven, but not to the point of insanity. Everyone has to balance themselves through art or some creative means, and when you do this, your masterpiece begins to unfold in front of you.

"We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence assigning values to worth lessness, when all that we love and hate, all we believe in fight for and kill for and die for is as meaningless as images projected in Plexiglas." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 85

"Nothing exists. All is a dream. God-man-the world-the sun-the moon the wilderness of stars-a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space-and you....And you are not you --you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but thought." Mark Twain 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 85

"We all live day to day, completely oblivious to the fact that we're part of a much larger and stranger version of reality than we can imagine." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 96

Someone kills this version of Daniella

"It's terrifying when you consider every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make branches off into a new world. Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 112

"It's a mystery. But there are clues. Most astrophysicists believe that the force holding stars and galaxies together--the thing that makes our whole universe work--comes from a theoretical substance we can't measure or observe directly. Some thing they call dark matter. And this dark matter makes up most of the known universe." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 112

"Some string theorists think dark matter might be a clue to the existence of a multiverse." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 112

"Imagine you're a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone we're standing beside the pond, watching you you'd have no idea they were there. To you that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine if someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was your entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you're a part of a larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 113

"So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there's an unimaginable, massive, infinite number of universes--a multiverse--where everything that can happen will happen." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 123

"I don't get it. If you wanted to put a particle in a quantum state, you'd create a deprivation chamber. Remove all the light, suck out the air, turn the temperature to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. It would kill a human being. And the larger you go, the more fragile it all becomes. Even though we're underground, there are all sorts of particles--neutrinos, cosmic rays--passing through that cube that could disturb a quantum state. The challenge seems insurmountable."

Blake Crouch

Dark Matter p. 124

"We perceive our environment in three-dimensions, but we don't actually live in a 3-D world. 3-D is static.  A snapshot. We have to add a fourth dimension to begin to describe the nature of our existence. The 4-D tesseract doesn't add a spatial dimension. It adds a temporal one. It adds time, a stream of 3-D cubes, representing space as it moves along times arrow. This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred.Or five billion. We,re not just looking into space, we're looking back through time. Our path through this 4-D reality is our worldline (reality) beginning with our birth and ending with our death.Four coordinates (x,y,z and t [time]) locate a point within the tesseract. And we think it stops there, but that's only true if every outcome is inevitable, if free will is an illusion, and our worldline is solitary. What if our worldline is just one in an infinite number of worldlines, some only slightly altered from the life we know,others drastically different? The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that all possible realities exist. That everything that has a probability of happening is happening. Everything that might have occurred in our past did occur, only in another universe.What if that's true? What if we live in a fifth-dimensional probability space? What if we actually inhabit the multiverse, but our brains have evolved in such a way to equip us with a firewall that limits what we perceive to a single universe? Our worldline. The one we choose, moment to moment. It makes sense if you think about it. We couldn't possibly contend with simultaneously observing all possible realities at once. So how do we access this 5-D probability space? And if we could where would it take us."

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

pp. 131-132

Lighton holds Ryan hostage to get Jason to confess the truth about what happened to him inside the box that transported him to this dimension. They drug Jason because he won't talk. Jason awoke with Ryan. After Ryan is dragged from the cell the other Jason appears from this universe. Amanda enters the room to inform Jason that they killed Ryan.

Amanda gets him out, but can't use her access cod to enter the room so they use Jason's. Amanda goes with Jason to his universe.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." 

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

p. 151

Josh and Amanda find themselves in a blizzard of ash.

"It's a one in a billion chance, but we're dealing with the multiverse. With infinity. Maybe there are a million worlds like yours, where I never figured it out. But all it takes is one where I did." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 159

"Let's assume assume the multiverse began with a single event--the Big Bang. That's the starting point, the base of the trunk of the most immense, elaborate tree you could fathom. As time unfolded and matter began to organize into stars and planets in all possible permutations, this tree sprouted branches, and the branches sprouted branches, and on and on, until somewhere, fourteen billion years down the line, my birth triggered a new branch. And from that moment, every choice I made or didn't make, and the actions of others that affected me--those all gave rise to more branches, to an infinite number of Jason Dessens, living in parallel worlds, some very similar to the one I call home,  some mind-bogglingly different."

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 164

Jason and Amanda find doubles of themselves.

They kill Amanda in front of her. Jason and Amanda travel through a house. The people in the house didn't freeze to death, they starved.

"You can't hold on to this as you open a new door. You have to find a way to let it go." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 180

"When you write something, you focus your full attention  on it. It's almost impossible to write one thing while thinking of another. The act of putting it on paper keeps your thoughts and intentions aligned." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 186

On the El train they took they were strapped in by mechanical arms which held their wrists and legs in place for safety. Jason and Amanda go to a skyscraper where they can see four states on a clear day Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. They meet this worlds version of Jason.

"I wonder, Is this what God feels like? The rush that comes from literally having spoken the world into existence? And yes this world already existed, but I connected us to it. Out of all the possible worlds, I found this one, and it's exactly, at least from the doorway of the box, what I wanted."

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 193

They just stole a car. Their the only car on the interstate. Amanda and Jason get to Jason's house. Daniella says that their son is dead and this version of Jason is dead.

Their followed in a high speed chase after leaving Daniella dead. They go to another world. Jason starts sobbing uncontrollably. Amanda tries to help him

"The subconscious marches to it's own beat." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 214

"What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intentions, and desires." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 214

"If you strip away all the personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make you you?" 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 218

"You know how a dream feels the further you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades." Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 221

Jason talks to  Daniala in an art gallery and asks her to get coffee, but then rescinds the offer.

"Identity isn't binary. It's multi-faceted." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 227

Jason calls Daniala and finds out Charlie is going to be a big brother.

"Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how previously and perfectly it all hangs together." 

Blake Crouch

Dark Matter p. 230

Amanda leaves. Jason gets beat up by teens as he walks home. They take his backpack and rip his clothes. They leave only 3 ampoules, which are the pills to help find his dimension. He sees this world's copy of himself.

That Jason gives him $15 on his eighth day there.

"We associate reality with the tangible--everything we can experience with our senses." 

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Blake Crouch p. 240

"Separation and isolation are an illusion." 

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Blake Crouch p. 245

Jason plans on killing the version of him within this world and taking his place.

Jason goes to buy a gun, but can't because his double told the dealer not to sell him one.

"The infinite nature of the corridor precluded me from running into more versions of myself, but I did see one the Jason with his back flayed open." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch  p. 261

"Is it possible to outthink yourself?" Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 262

Jason's clone tries to shoot Jason.

Jason realized their were murders being committed by different versions of himself. He almost got caught but lost himself in a bar.

"All you can do is live with the best version of yourself, right?"

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch

p. 271

Jason decides the only way to beat the other versions of himself is to do something random.

Jason goes to a diner and starts smoking and is asked to leave. Jason goes to jail because of that.

Daniala comes to bail him out. She doesn't know what to do. Jason calls that worlds Jason at the University to prove she isn't going crazy. They pick up Charlie at school. Daniala just received a text saying she was in danger and to call the number she was texted on.

"The multiverse exists because every choice we make creates a fork in the road, which leads into a parallel world. Every choice we make unfolds into a multitude of permutations." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 293

"All your life your told your unique. An individual. That no one else on the planet is like you." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 299

Charlie is 15 now. Jason can't sleep, he sees versions of himself trying to murder himself. Jason has a chat with all the other Jason's on this plane of existence and agrees to discuss the issues of his family with all his clones.

"I've seen so many versions of you. But it's all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when your in it, it's all just day to day. And isn't that what you have to make your peace with?" 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch p. 314

Jason finds himself dying in the snow, he's told one of his duplicates did this. Jason and his copy are in a fight, he's forced to strip. He is saved by another Jason.

"Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse?" 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 326

"Life doesn't work that way, you live with your choices and learn, you don't cheat the system."

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 326

"We're so clearly at the end. Everything we've built-our house, our job, our friends, our collective life-it's all gone. We have nothing left but eachother, and yet in this moment I'm happier than I've ever been." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 332

"If you go in with fear, fear is what you'd find." 

Dark Matter 

Blake Crouch 

p. 339