17314 - Human mountains
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi
Just before his airplane landed it flew over the human mountains.
They were the library of nature.
Those which gave life to the lake due to its bond with the sky.
He was now in the country of Bernoulli and Euler, thanks to them mathematics had taken on new dimensions, so that they prepare for the work of Leibniz. And the space curvatures seemed like solutions of optimization problems.
Concentrated Time in a small space.
At that instant the engines stopped and the course became earthly.
Then the first knot of this course tied onto the works of the giants.
Flughafen Zürich.
There, calculus of variations was everywhere.
None of them had conceived the hyperstructure of such an airport.
That which flew and was heavier than air had formed an new reality that was completely inconceivable even for the giants of the past.
When it was simply a generalization of automation and mechanization, significant concepts since the beginning of Renaissance.
While now thought lived with this reality without realizing that it concerns an unbelievable innovation.
Just as the ports belonged to the sea and not to the land, the airports belonged to the skies and not to the ground.
They were all places of preparation for the flights, while societies considered them as waiting places.
Nobody waited, everyone was ready.
This is how were the Masters when they read the books of another Master.
Fully ready for the restart.