I get my car back, from the
government people and I drive home. It
appears that I’ll need to relocate. Then
again, the government people can probably find me, anywhere I go. I fix a huge meal and eat, as I gather the
things that I’ll need for tonight’s assignment. I then go for a walk along the
stream that runs near Brown Deer Road. I
get near Mr; Ibriham’s house. I walk from the bright light, under a street
lamp, into the dark shadow, under a tree.
I disappear. (Actually, I don’t
disappear, I go up into the fourth spatial dimension. However, I’m no longer visible in the three
dimensional world, as long as I don’t cast a shadow, into the three dimensional
world.)
(The three dimensional
world contains three spatial dimensions, normally called X, Y and Z. Of course, the three dimensional world also
contains time. The fourth dimension is
impossible to explain to those living in three dimensions, the words and
concepts are just not there. Let’s
examine a two dimensional world, represented by a piece of paper [X, Y]
dimensions. You then draw a circle
around part of the paper. You then write
something inside the circle. What you
just wrote is hidden from the inhabitants of a two dimensional world, because
of the barrier circle. However, the
inhabitants of a three dimensional world can read what you just wrote, with
ease, because of dimension Z. If you try
to explain the situation to an inhabitant of the two dimensional world, the
inhabitant tells you, “There is no such thing as dimension Z, you speak nonsense.”)
In many situations,
dimension 4 me doesn’t have to cast a shadow into the three dimensional
world. However, in some situations, I do
have to cast a shadow. I can ‘look
around’ your three dimensional world, from dimension 4. I move to the house of Mr. Ibriham and then to the safe that contains the document
that I’m to copy. I look around and see
no one. I then cast a three dimensional
shadow. My three dimensional shadow then
reaches into the safe, via dimension 4, and I open the cover of the list that
I’m to copy. (My three dimensional
shadow can manipulate objects in three dimensional space, but, of course, not
in dimension 4 space.) I check the
image, via the view finder of my camera and I snap the picture. I then find that the list is two pages
long. I flip to the second page and snap
anther picture. I then close the cover
of the list and place things as they were.
I detect no movement around
me, but the flash from my camera may have alerted someone. I move back into dimension 4 space and then
move to where my shadow doesn’t project into three dimensional space. I pause to pocket my camera and then I move
back to three dimensional space, in the same tree shadow where I entered
dimension 4 space. I then walk on.
I walk only a short distance
further, along the stream that runs near Brown Deer Road. I’m then accosted by
several burly young men and then whisked away to a meeting with the same man
who dispatched me on my mission to Mt. Ibriham’s
house.
I face the man who
dispatched me to Ibriham’s house.
He asks me, “Did you get
the information.”
I reply, in a level tone of
voice, “I have some information. The
information is for your supervisor. I
need to speak directly to your supervisor, because you’re too stupid to understand
what I have to say, Is
that clear, you stupid son of a bitch?”
The man recoils back. He then says, “Mr. Dorn, are you looking for
trouble?”
I lean forward and lecture,
“I’m going to assume that everything that we say is being recorded. Tonight, I walked along the stream that runs
near Brown Deer Road. It’s a pleasant
place to walk, with the gurgling of the little stream and the wind in the
leaves of the trees along the stream. If
I chance to meet someone, I say, ‘Good evening.’ Chances are they reply, in kind. They probably don’t really remember the
meeting, just a couple of neighbors passing by. However, tonight, you saw fit to deploy
several large, muscular young men along my route. Said young men were being as inconspicuous as
practical. The residents along Brown
Deer Road, watching for a brown deer as usual, peered around the edges of their
draped windows and whispered, ‘Oh God, Murgatroyd,
there are several large, muscular young men loitering along the edge of the
creek.’ Then I walked by. The several large, muscular young men
loitering along the edge of the creek grabbed me and took me away. The residents along Brown Deer Road, peered
around the edges of their draped windows and whispered, ‘Oh God, Murgatroyd, the several large, muscular young men loitering
along the edge of the creek grabbed the guy who sometimes walks by here. Pro’lly the guy is
a drug dealer or maybe a commie spy.’
Thus, my usefulness as a Brown Deer Road hiker is over, at least for
quite some time. My ability to earn a
living, along Brown Deer Road, is also over, at least for quite some time. You
wonder why I’m upset. Is that what you
wonder?”
A woman strolls into the
interview room. She says,”I’ll
handle this matter.”
The man gets up and leaves
the room.
The woman looks at Jim Dorn
and then lectures, “Mr. Dorn, what it is that you do is obviously
impossible. Thus, the usual run of the
mill government employee has no idea how to deal with you. I’m not a usual run of the mill government
employee. I would have no idea as to how
to deal with you, except that you have already told me how to deal with you.