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From:\u00a0Report of the Commander, Seventh Expeditionary Force, Andromedan Paleo-anthropological Mission<\/em><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
. . . What puzzled our research teams was the suddenness of collapse, and the speed of reversion to barbarism,\u00a0in\u00a0this multi-galactic civilization of the biped race. Obvious causes like war, destruction, plague, or invasion were speedily eliminated. Now the outlines of the picture emerge, the answer makes me apprehensive.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Part of the story is quite similar to ours, according to those who know our own prehistory well.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On the mother planet there are early traces of\u00a0books<\/em>. This word denotes paleoliterary records of knowledge\u00a0inrepresentational and macroscopic form. Of course, these disappeared very early, perhaps 175,000 of our yukals ago, when their increase threatened to leave no place on the planet’s surface for anything else.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First they were reduced to\u00a0micros<\/em>, and then to\u00a0supermicros<\/em>, which were read with the primeval electronic microscopes then extant. But\u00a0in\u00a0another yukal the old problem was back, aggravated by colonization on most of the other planets of the local solar system, all of which were producing\u00a0books<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0torrents. At about this time, too, their cumbersome alphabet was reduced to mainly consonantal elements (thus: thr cmbrsm alfbt w rdsd t mnl cnsntl elmnts) but this was done to facilitate quick reading, and only incidentally did it cut down the mass of Bx (the new spelling) by\u00a0afull third.\u00a0A\u00a0drop out of the bucket.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Next step was the elimination of the multitude of separate Bx depositories\u00a0in\u00a0favor of\u00a0a\u00a0single building for the whole civilization. Every home on every inhabited planet had\u00a0a\u00a0farraginous diffuser which tuned\u00a0in\u00a0on any of the Bx at will. This cut the number to about one millionth at\u00a0a\u00a0stroke, and the wise men of the species congratulated themselves that the problem was solved.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This building, 25 miles square and two miles high, was buried\u00a0in\u00a0one of the oceans to save land surface for parking space, and so our etymological team is fairly sure that the archaic term liebury (lbry) dates from this period. Within no more than 22 yukals, story after story had been added till it extended\u00a0a\u00a0hundred miles into the stratosphere. At this level, cosmic radiation defarraginated the scanning diffusers, and it was realized that another limit had been reached. Proposals were made to extend the liebury laterally, but it was calculated that\u00a0in\u00a0three yukals of expansion so much of the ocean would be thus displaced that the level of the water would rise ten feet and flood the coastal cities. Another scheme was worked out to burrow deeper into the ocean bottom, until eventually the liebury would extend right through the planet like\u00a0a\u00a0skewer through shashlik (a\u00a0provincial Plutonian delicacy), but it was realized\u00a0in\u00a0time that this would be only\u00a0a\u00a0momentary palliative.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The fundamental advance, at least\u00a0in\u00a0principle, came when the representational records were abandoned altogether\u00a0infavor of\u00a0punched supermicros<\/em>,in\u00a0which the supermicroscopic elements were the punches themselves. This began the epoch of abstract recs–or Rx, to use the modern term.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The great breakthrough came when Mcglcdy finally invented mass-produced\u00a0punched molecules<\/em>\u00a0(of any substance). The mass of Rx began shrinking instead of expanding. Then Gldbg proved what had already been suspected: knowledge was not infinite, and the civilization was asymptotically approaching its limits; the flood was leveling off. The Rx storage problem was hit another body-blow two generations later when Kwlsk used the Mcglcdy principle to develop the\u00a0notched electron<\/em>, made available for use by the new retinogravitic activators.\u00a0In\u00a0the ensuing ten yukals\u00a0a\u00a0series of triumphant developments wiped the problem out for good, it seemed:<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(1) Getting below matter level, Shmt began by notching quanta (an obvious extension of Kwlsk’s work) but found this clumsy.\u00a0In\u00a0a\u00a0brilliant stroke he invented the\u00a0chipped quantum<\/em>, with an astronomical number of chips on each one. The Rx contracted to one building for the whole culture.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(2) Shmt’s pupil Qjt, even before the master’s death found the chip unnecessary. Out of his work, ably supported by Drnt and Lccn, came the\u00a0nudged quanta<\/em>, popularly so called because\u00a0a\u00a0permanent record was impressed on each quantum by\u00a0a\u00a0simple vectorial pressure, occupying no subspace on the psuedosurface itself.\u00a0A\u00a0whole treatise could be nudged onto\u00a0a\u00a0couple of quanta, and whole branches of knowledge could for the first time be put\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0nutshell. The Rx dwindled to one room of one building.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(3) Finally–but this took another yukal and was technologically associated with the expansion of the civilization to intergalactic proportions–Fx and Sng found that quanta\u00a0in\u00a0hyperbolic tensor systems could be tensed into occupying the same spatial and temporal coordinates, if properly pizzicated.\u00a0In\u00a0no time at all,\u00a0a\u00a0quantic pizzicator was devised to compress the nudged quanta into overlapping spaces, most of these being arranged\u00a0in\u00a0the wide-open areas lying between the outer electrons and the nucleus of the atom, leaving the latter free for tables of contents, illustrations, graphs, etc.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All the Rx ever produced could now be packed away\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0single drawer, with plenty of room for additions.\u00a0A\u00a0great celebration was held when the Rx drawer was ceremoniously installed, and glowing speeches pointed out that science had once more refuted pessimistic croakings of doom. Even so, two speakers could not refrain from mentioning certain misgivings . . .<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To understand the nature of these misgivings, we must now turn to\u00a0a\u00a0development which we have deliberately ignored so far for the sake of simplicity but\u00a0which was\u00a0in\u00a0fact going on side by side with the shrinking of the Rx.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First, as we well know, the Rx\u00a0in\u00a0the new storage systems could be scanned only by activating the nudged or pizzicated quanta, etc. by means of\u00a0a\u00a0code number, arranged as an index to the Rx. Clearly the index itself had to be kept representational and macroscopic, else\u00a0a\u00a0code number would become necessary to activate\u00a0it<\/em>. Or so it was assumed.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Secondly,\u00a0a\u00a0process came into play of which even the ancients had had presentiments. According to\u00a0a\u00a0tradition recorded by Kchv among some oldsters\u00a0in\u00a0the remote Los Angeles swamps, the thing started when an antique sage produced one of the paleoliterary Bx entitled\u00a0An Index to Indexes<\/em>\u00a0(or Ix t Ix), coded as\u00a0a\u00a0primitive I2 [*** editorial note : I squared — and all following numbers follow same format***]. By the time of the supermicros there were several Indexes to Indexes (I3), and work had already started on an I4.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These were the innocent days before the problem became acute. Later, Index runs were collected\u00a0in\u00a0Files, and Filesin\u00a0Catalogs–so that, for example, C3F5I4 meant that you wanted an Index to Indexes to Indexes to Indexes which was to be found\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0certain File of Files of Files of Files of Files, which\u00a0in\u00a0turn was contained\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0Catalog of Catalogs of Catalogs. Of course, actual numbers were much greater. This structure grew exponentially. The process of education consisted solely\u00a0in\u00a0learning how to tap the Rx for knowledge when needed. The position was well put indeed\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0famous speech by Jzbl to the graduates of the Central Saturnian University, when he said that it was\u00a0a\u00a0source of great pride to him that although hardly anybody knew anything any longer, everybody now knew how to find out everything.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Another type of Index, the Bibliography, also flourished, side by side with C-F-I series of the Ix. This B series was the province of an aristocracy of scholars who devoted themselves exclusively to Bibliographies of Bibliographies of . . . well, at the point\u00a0in\u00a0history with which we are next concerned, the series had reached B437. Furthermore, at every exponential level, some ambitious scholar branched off to work on\u00a0a\u00a0History of the Bibliographies of that level. The compilation of the first History of Bibliography (H1) is lost\u00a0in\u00a0the mists of time, but there is an early chronicled account of\u00a0a\u00a0History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies of Bibliographies (H3) and naturally H436 was itself under way about the time B437 was completed.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On the other hand, the first History of Histories of Bibliographies came much later, and this H-prime series always lagged behind. It goes without saying that the B-H-H’ series (like the C-F-I) had to have its own indexes, which\u00a0in\u00a0turn normally grew into\u00a0a\u00a0C-F-I series ancillary to the B-H-H’ series. There were some other but minor developments of the sort.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All these Index records were representational; though proposals were made at times to reduce the whole thing to pizzicated quanta, reluctance to take this fateful step long won out. So when the Rx had already shrunk to room-size, the Ix were expanding to fill far more than the space saved. The old liebury was bursting. One of the asteroids was converted into an annex, called the Asteroidal Storage Station.\u00a0In\u00a0thirteen yukals, all the ASS’s were filled\u00a0in\u00a0the original solar system. Other systems selfishly refused to admit the camel’s nose into their tent.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Under the stress of need, resistance to abstractionizing broke, and with the aid of the then new process of cospatial nudging, the entire mass of Ix was nudged into\u00a0a\u00a0drawer no bigger than that which contained the Rx themselves.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now this drawer (D1 had to be activated by indexed code numbers, itself. More and more scholars turned away from research\u00a0in\u00a0the thinner and thinner stream of discoverable knowledge\u00a0in\u00a0order to tackle the far more serious problem: how to thread one’s way from the Ix to the Rx. This specialization led to\u00a0a\u00a0whole new branch of knowledge known as Ariadnology. Naturally, as Ariadnology expanded its Rx, its Ix swelled proportionately, until it became necessary to set up\u00a0a\u00a0sub-branch to systematize access from the Ix to the Rx of Ariadnology itself. This (the Ariadnology of Ariadnology) was known as A2, and by the time of the Collapse the field of A5 was just beginning to develop, together with the appropriate Ix, plus the indispensable B-H-H’ series, of course.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The inevitable happened\u00a0in\u00a0the course of\u00a0a\u00a0few yukals: the Ix of the second code series began to accumulate\u00a0in\u00a0the same ASS’s that had once been so joyfully emptied. Soon these Ix were duly absractionized into\u00a0a\u00a0second drawer, D2.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then it was the old familiar story: the liebury filled up, the ASS’s filled up. Around 10,000 yukals ago, the first artificial planet was created, therefore, to hold the steadily mounting agglomeration of Ix drawers. About 8000 yukals ago,\u00a0a\u00a0number of artificial planets were united into psuedosolar systems for convenience. By the time of yukal 2738 of our own era (for we are now getting into modern times) the artificial psuedosolar sytsems were due to be amalgamated into\u00a0a\u00a0pseudogalaxy of drawers, when–<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Catastrophe struck. . . .<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This tragic story can be told with some historical detail, thanks to the work of our research teams.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It began with what seemed\u00a0a\u00a0routine breakdown\u00a0in\u00a0one of the access lines from D57x103 to D42x107.\u00a0A\u00a0
Bibliothecal Mechanic set out to fix it as usual. It did not fix. He realized that\u00a0a\u00a0classification error must have been made by the ariadnologist who had worked on the last pseudosolar system. Tracing the misnudged quanta involved, he ran into: “See C11F73I15.”<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Laboriously tracing through, he found the note:<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“This Ix class had been replaced by C32F7I10 for brachygravitic endo-ranganathans and C22F64I3 for ailurophenolphthaleinic exoranganathans.”<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tracing this through\u00a0in\u00a0turn, he found that they led back to the original C11F73I15!<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At this point he called\u00a0in\u00a0the district Bibliothecal Technician, who pointed out that the misnudged sequence could be restored only by reference to the original Rx. Through the area Bibliothecal Engineer, an emergency message was sent to the chief himself, Mlvl Dwy Smth.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Without hesitation, His Bibliothecal Excellency pressed the master button on his desk and queried the Ix System for: “Knowledge, Universal–All Rx-Drawer,\u00a0Location of<\/em>.”<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To his stunned surprise, the answer came back: “See also C11F73I15.”<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Frantically he turned dials, nudged quanta, etc. but it was no use. Somewhere\u00a0in\u00a0the galaxy-size flood of Ix drawers was the one and only drawer of Rx, the one that had once been installed with great joy. It was somewhere among the Indexes, Bibliographies, Bibliographies of Bibliographies, Histories of Bibliography, Histories of Histories of Bibliographies, etc.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A\u00a0desperate physical search was started, but it did not get very far, breaking down when it was found that no communication was possible\u00a0in\u00a0the first place without reference to the knowledge stored\u00a0in\u00a0the Rx. As the entire bibliothecal staff was diverted for the emergency, breakdowns\u00a0in\u00a0the access lines multiplied and tangled, until whole sectors were disabled, rendering further cooperation even less possible. The fabric of this biped civilization started falling apart.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The final result you know from my first report. Rehabilitation plans will be sent tomorrow.<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Yours,<\/div>\n
Yrlh Vvg<\/div>\n
Commander<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Handwritten memo<\/em>) This report received L-43-102. File it under M42A8E39. –T.G.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Handwritten memo<\/em>) You must be mistaken; there is no M42A8E39. Replaced by *W-M23A72E30 for duodenomattoid reports. –L.N.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Handwritten memo<\/em>) You damfool, you bungled again. Now you’ve got to refer to the Rx to straighten out the line. Here’s the correction number, stupid:<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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