Invisibility: The Inverse Power That Is Not Glory at PSI Bathford
Rumours continue that the ball moves in mysterious ways at the Ground of PSI (Possibility Space Inclusionals) Bathford, the ‘Holey Moleys’, who are currently creating a bit of a storm in the Fantasy Football League. Former Stars in the team have forsaken their colourful strip and become invisible ‘black holes’, with only an implicit presence. Manager, Dr Alan Rayner briefly manifested to report that some of the Stars, especially the older ones, had taken their disappearance a bit hard and missed the attention of the crowd and opposing players. But they found that Not Being Centres of Attention, and so no longer being marked, made them instead Centres of Attraction. By some Strange Co-Incidence, the ball always came their way via an infinite variety of infinitely improbable possibilities. Then all they had to do was manifest for an instant to transform the rectilinear geometry of the Space guarded by the Opposing Keeper into the Hole of a Goal. But, as it happens, there was also a strong propensity to score an Ow(e)n Goal at some Place in the Future.
Asked whether this strategy might adversely affect their results and consequent Position in the League Table, Dr Rayner replied that this was neither Here nor There. In an Inclusional scheme of Things, it is better to be a Rank Inside-Outsider, where better is worse, more is less and all is none. Hierarchies are for rationalists, capable only of acknowledging the explicit and so missing virtually the Hole of the Picture. What matters is relativity. This is why the team players had abandoned conventional numbers to signify their Self-Identity and adopted the Shakunlian System of Fluid Logic Numbers developed by a Nigerian mathematician living in Berlin. In this way they could Be both Self and Other at the same time and so create a curved-space geometry of Zero Spirals akin to patterns seen in turbulent, self-reflective water. The trick lay in regarding each number as a threesome of its present, past and future possibility and so intra-connected to all space-time. In other words, a Hat Trick, with a Hole for the Head.
Commenting on those who could not Take PSI Bathford’s Strange Attraction to Possibility Space Seriously, Dr Rayner commented that they did not appreciate the Gravity of the Situation. ‘Until We give Space its Place’, he pontificated, ‘We’ll continue to make a terrible, incoherent, disharmonious Mess of Everything’, at which point the Holey Ghost of John Lennon chipped in saying, ‘All we need is Love and Imagination’, and Albert Einstein stirred in his Grave.
Meanwhile, Visitors to Bathford’s Ground describe the experience as ‘like being dissolved, losing Face and being carried in swirling waters to a Cavernous Underground labyrinth where growth upwards meets growth downwards, and fuses into the columns of a Cathedral-like Interior’. But, then, they say, emerging back into the explicit light of everyday, ‘It’s as Well not to Take It Too Seriously’.