Before I started playing Penrose, I had begun to fear I was losing my capacity to read.
(She’s on crutches and can’t move well on her own anymore.)
Soon enough the text starts to open up in galloping leaps.
Pressing another highlighted word rewrites the entire chapter from Cat’s point-of-view.
As new chapters are introduced, the timeline jumps from days to decades.
Have the characters fallen into a collective hallucination?
Have they been inadvertently trapped in a black hole on the far side of the universe?
Would they be able to tell the difference between the two?
Yet, he also famously believed that the human mind could not be understood in terms of math.
The trick is learning when to let go.
It can take a lifetime to get it right.
