Mathematicians On Mars
A mile-wide chunk of Mars fell from the sky and landed just beside the accidental body of water known as the Sultan Sea. The falling space material, reverberating heat, caused the lake to evaporate and recede. Any water remaining gained extreme salinity. It wasn’t long before this place became known as a decrepit, poisonous land.
While water skiers and others in the area fled, a strange breed of humans erected a sign that said “M.A.R.S.” and began building a community in the midst of this desolation.
Among those on this community are:
Tao Ruspoli, film-maker, flamenco guitarist, Italian prince and builder of the Vertical Airplane House.
Chris Wonderwoman, a beautiful and powerful life force. Master avant gardener, and host of the potluck at the Bombay Beach Institute of Particle Physics.
Jessie Whatshisname, founder of the Crypto-Anarchic Divinity School.
A man named “Pseudo”, referring to the pseudoholomorphic curve, which he discovered. It was he who hosted the school of mathematics on MARS, and it was he who hosted the festival of holy with flinging paint and placebo powders blown into the flames of a flaming dodecahedron (or another shape I do not recall).
Touch, Computer Scientist, contact dancer and promulgator of a fellowship pursuing the unlimited.
VJ Decoy, founder of the Algorave. Lovely soul of infinite curiosity and absurd calm, holding a banana to the sky as the tailgate-less pickup truck roared towards sunrise with a bed full of morning spirits.
Many flying machines, new and old, as well as investors of the flying machines. Alternative rocket launch gizmos never before seen outside of MARS. Forest fire fighting photographers.
Numerous other lively souls rode around on gyroscopic unicycles and contributed their ideas and artwork to this foreign world, in the midst of earth’s most dried up, cracking shell of something that once was, harnessing an unwanted place as a rare haven of freedom of expression, a sandbox. One of the most potent locations I’ve ever been.
Most amazing of all this is that this community was created knowing it will all be erased soon, when a Martian Yo-Yoer pulls this chunk of mars from earth in a week or two, as he does yearly. But worry not, Mars will be back again next year, hopefully more martian than ever and with a Ferris wheel sponsored by The Times.
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