Ivan Dobnik - Vilenica

338 · Jean-Michel Espitallier
Here and There
1. The world is all that is there.
2. The totality of the world is the totality of theres of the world minus one
there that is here.
3. Here is the sum of all the theres minus all the theres minus one.
4. Seen from there, there will always be one there missing from the totality
of theres of the world, and that missing there is here. So that one cannot
conceive a universe comprised of there only. However, all that is not here
does not exist.
5. From which it follows that all the theres which are at the same time not
here do not exist here.
6. And thus the world does not exist. Save here.
7. “Look over there and see if I am there” is an order difficult to follow.
8. All that is there never comes here, save if one should go there to look for
it and remain there.
9. The value of here varies according to here. “Doctor, I have a pain here”
does not designate the same here as “here in Europe;” “here in Europe”
includes “doctor, I have a pain here” if the pain and the doctor are “here
in Europe.” It follows that “doctor, I have a pain here” does not designate
the same here as “here in Europe” even if “doctor, I have a pain here”
should happen to be “here in Europe.” There exists therefore a relation
of inclusion between many heres, since here is always included in a here
larger than it.
10. From which it will be deduced that each here consists of an infinity of
heres all nested in each other like matryoshka dolls, even in Europe.
11. This relation is not reciprocal (“here in Europe” includes “I have a pain
here,” but “I have a pain here” does not include “here in Europe”).
12. If he who has “a pain here” telephones from China for a doctor who
is “in Europe,” here the relation between the two is a relation known as
space-shifted telediagnostical, since “I have a pain here” is included in
“here in Europe” and the doctor who happens to be “here in Europe” must
diagnosticate the “pain here” that is not “here in Europe.”
13. Two heres = 1 there who is not here + 1 here who is not there (except
there).
14. If for here there = there, for there here = there; but for there, there does
not necessarily equal here.
15. The thousands of theres which are there for other people over there do
not exist for these other people over there who do not exist for here.
16. The totality of other people over there corresponds to the totality of
the potentials of here.
17. One there never equals another, even if for here two distinct theres are
indistinctly there.
18. Each there is the there of all the other theres at once.