"Kathleen Ann Goonan - Nanotech 04 - Light Music" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goose Mother)

them songs too. She says that the songs organize their brains in a
special way. Dania is crazy about music. Dad said that sheтАЩs purely
crazy, but Mom always frowns at him when he says that and itтАЩs
that frown that makes him be quiet right away.
One day when she was supposed to be teaching us music, way
back when I was in the first set, she drew some kind of complicated
picture with a lot of corners to it and talked about super-strings and
things she, called тАЬdimensions.тАЭ The picture was supposed to be
about how just one point containsтАж well, I canтАЩt explain it because I
didnтАЩt really understand it. But she sees things that other people
donтАЩt see, everybody knows that. Then she told us kids about how
there were more colors and sounds than we could see and hear, but
one day we would have a new sense like her so that we could know
all of that and the moms and dads got mad and had a meeting and
told her she couldnтАЩt talk to the kids about things like that. Not my
mom and dad, but some of them. The next day she started packing
her stuff to leave and there was a big uproar and finally they told
her she could stay. She didnтАЩt want to at first, but they told her it
was all right, she could say whatever she wants, and she does. She
talks about a new time that is coming when we will know more and
be connected with everything and be able to communicate with
each other and everything and even with people who live in the sky
extremely far away, like farther than the sun, like in the stars.
People laugh at her behind her back, but I donтАЩt. I love her.
 Dania is pretty. Her eyes are gray-gold and sad a lot, especially
when she talks about Crescent City. Her hair is long and light
brown and she wears it in a ponytail. Mom says that sheтАЩs one of
those people who will never get old, and that the time she was in
Crescent City was a long, long time ago, before even Mom was
born. Gramma is old, but she looks old, and has white hair. SheтАЩs
not very good at walking. Dania is different.
Crescent City was way out in the ocean. DadтАЩs brother went
there, or at least left to go there. I think that if Dania could
remember DadтАЩs brother, he would like her more.
She said that a lot of people lived there. Almost a million. She
had to leave because of a war. She says that she is going back,
sometime, and that they are all going to outer space.
ThatтАЩs when Dad laughs loudest, and Mom frowns strongest.
ThatтАЩs when I think that the Nows are confusing her, because at
other times she seems to think that everyone went to space a long
time ago, and she decided to stay behind to be a reverend and a
teacher. Gramma says she knows the true story and that Dania
stayed because of love, but Dad says that GrammaтАЩs just an old
romantic and that nobody ever left.
Dania says that the reason that everything is happening is
because itтАЩs an average. When she drew her drawing, she said that
because of quantum indeterminancy, we actually have something to
do with what is happening. We average everything with
consciousness. But there are other kinds of consciousness. Other
levels. IтАЩm not sure what consciousness is, but she says that weтАЩll all