23 August 2023: Continued
Yesterday’s blog ended with me picking up a piece of litter, that we now know was a GANTOB pamphlet plane.
Meanwhile, GANTOB (the person) was having a terrible day in south Kent.
Now, if this were a piece of fiction, The Observer, until recently perched on top of a taxi in Edinburgh, would disappear in a puff of feathers and mites, only to materialise in Folkestone.
But the truth is stranger than that. You may be familiar with the concept of quantum entanglement. It is “a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon that explains how two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space”. Or even between Edinburgh and Folkestone.
To avoid “spoilers” I will not go into too many details at this point about GANTOB’s terrible day. See pamphlets 15 and 20 (the latter in Kompanion Volume) which are in the process of being uploaded to The KLFRS GANTOB page.
GANTOB printed 10 pamphlet planes, all on cheap office paper for buoyancy. They were produced to promote GANTOB (the project). My contention is that, as with subatomic entities, larger objects can also become entangled across a considerable distance. Not interstellar distances, but because they were produced in a single action, e.g. from the same printer, paper and ink, with identical wording. To support my claim, I would just say that even grapefruit are just a collection of molecules, which are simply bonded atoms, themselves presumably made up of gazillions of subatomic particles.
I think that there is documentary evidence of the entanglement of pamphlet planes. GANTOB took particular care to document her pamphlet plane performances in videos and photographs on 23 August. We see planes malfunctioning – slicing off to the left or plummeting into the sand. And we see GANTOB admitting defeat and instead holding a plane against the Harbour Arm in an attempt to reproduce some Bill Drummond inspired graffiti. We do not have times for these activities, but conversations with GANTOB suggest that they occurred at around the time the Edinburgh plane made its descent onto my head. Job done, connection between GANTOB and me made, the rest of the planes are superfluous and “fail”.
What I do not know, though perhaps The Ornithologist can help, is whether the birds in GANTOB Folkestone videos are herring gulls (like The Observer perhaps) or Folkestone’s famous Mediterranean gulls.
THE BENEFAKTOR
4 October 2023
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