The Mr. Nile Experiment
21: Now Hear This
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  Right.
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  Let's talk about sound.
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And let's begin by remembering that we're not talking at all.
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  You're assembling my voice in your head out of the language symbols I'm using to communicate.
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  But I'm not actually talking.
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  And that's the problem.
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  My experience of sound from inside the comic is... well, it's difficult to explain.
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  You don't hear things, exactly.
More you sort of see them.
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  In practical terms, that makes the speed of sound just as fast as the speed of light.
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And, more importantly, both are then dependent on the often variable speed of reading.
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  I guess the point I'm trying to make, is that sound inside a comic... isn't.
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  It just doesn't exist in the
same way it does in your reality.
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So, at the moment, communication between our two realities relies on a process of translation.
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  A conversion back and forth between visual symbols and acoustic signals.
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  But. I've been wondering.
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  What would happen if this translation process were somehow... skipped?
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  What would be the result of your reality's concept of sound being injected straight into the narrative of my reality?
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  Personally, I haven't got a clue.
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  But I guess tomorrow we'll find out.
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