Tuesday 17 April 2012

The Black Hole Hole

The Moose and I had followed the ridge of the mountain for a long time, upwards and inwards. The air had become thin and I knew we were very, very, very, very, very, very high. At about midday we broke free of the forest and came out into a stony wilderness of stones and wildness. White puffy clouds floated far below us and below them the forest spread and below the forest the lost city that nobody knows about. I squeezed my eyes shut and swallowed a thought which threatened to ruin everything. 'I say'  I said 'Isn't it enthralling, being so far above the world and all that.' 'Indeed it is.' agreed the Moose, he opened his mouth and then shut it again. For the next seven years we stood on the mountain side saying nothing. Finally I sat down on a large flat rock, on the rock beside me was a shiny, thin, flat rock. So I picked it up, turned it over and on the other side were some words which read as follows: "Now what?" I flung it down smashing it on the ground. I bit my lip trying not to scream something silly which I didn't, then I noticed the Moose kneeling down some distance away so I ran over to him. A large rock nearby slowly started to slide down the mountain making a horrible grinding sound that turned my stomach. I clamped my hands on my ears and stumbled over beside the Moose to see what he was looking at. There on the ground was a large hole with nothing in it. Now this may come as a shock to you, there was nothing in the hole at all, nothing, nothing, nothing. Perhaps its a very deep hole you say? No I don't think you're quite getting it. If you can imagine a very small black hole star, or a space that's so empty it has nothing in it what so ever then you're imagining something that is nothing which is rather interesting I think. I sat down beside the Moose who was throwing stones into the hole and watching them disappear like magic, 'hows the black hole hole going?' I asked in one of my friendly voices 'Pretty good, about three elephants and a flock of birds have flown out of it' he informed me. I gasped 'I didn't know elephants could fly?' 'well these ones could' said the Moose. Three months later after watching a cow come out of the hole, I said to the Moose -who had nearly emptied the entire mountain into the black hole hole- 'hey Moose?' and he replied 'yes?' and then I said this ' lets jump into the black hole hole and see where it sends us, because I heard you can time travel in them' the Moose shook his head 'no, lets not' so we didn't. The next year the Moose backed down and said humbly that we probably just might jump into the black hole hole, so after throwing in the last piece of the mountain we jumped into the black hole hole and every thing went black for a second.

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