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Over the course of a day
Sergey Kalmykov
Over the course of a day, the Earth will make about seventeen thousand and fifty-two revolutions around its axis and fifteen revolutions around the Sun. As a result, there will be no nights at all. Seasons will also disappear. All points on the Earth’s surface will have the same temperature.
There will be very long, clear days.
It will be warm.
The Sun’s rays will warm inhabitants of the Earth.
The exchange of organic matter will be extremely accelerated.
Over the course of a day, the Earth will make about seventeen thousand and seventy-two revolutions around its axis and nineteen revolutions around the Sun.
A black nutrient-rich fog will drift onto the Earth and onto the Sun every fifteen revolutions of the Earth around the Sun. The solar system will travel through a spatial lattice system in which two drastically different chemical compositions will alternate – the S02 substrate and the T_003 substrate. Just as the Earth is composed of different geological layers, the spatial system of the World is not homogeneous, but is composed of different spatial substances. The solar system will break into а system consisting of the S02 and T_003 substrates. Flying through the S02 substrate, the solar system will be enveloped in light. Certain diurnal processes will result. Flying through the T_003 composition, the solar system will plunge into the black nutrient-rich fog, in which the chemical processes will be the inverse of the diurnal processes in the substrate S02. In the T_003 substrate, matter will regenerate. The reverse regeneration processes of the T_003 system will occur at a rate nine billion one thousand four hundred twenty-two times greater than in the S02 substrate system. Life processes resulting from this interaction of these two systems will become extraordinarily potent and inexhaustible. There will be no death.
New lifeforms will start to appear.
Thousand-headed people, animals, fish, birds, and insects will come into being. Plants will hover and sail through in the air. Living organisms will be nourished on air alone.
Thousand-year-old dragonflies will fly about. Five-hundred–footed lions will run across pale purple mounds. Seven-hundred–eyed cats will run on pink flagstone.
Sex organs will serve only for entertainment. Multi-headed and multi-armed creatures will be born artificially (due to the inconvenience of being born from the womb) using special patented casings resembling cameras (shiny three-meter glass lenses).
The gametes of the mother and father will develop quickly and painlessly in these casings.
While the first head of a thousand-headed creature will solve or ponder some problem, the second will be smiling, joking, and chatting casually, the third will be carrying on a business conversation on a particular topic, the fourth will be listening to music, the fifth will be giving orders, and so on. Its abilities will grow, increase, and improve.
Injuries will heal quickly. New organs of varied functions will appear.
A widely-celebrated landmark esplanade lined with nine-legged elephants will be built to celebrate this new period for life on a renewed Earth.
A black doll will be dressed in a black costume sparkling with gold, the white brim of its hat accentuating a white powdered wig of shiny silk. Its blue eyes will open and close.
Hippopotamus berries will be infused in crystal vials.
Snake jam will be served by black boys wearing scarlet knickers. Blue girls will drink cockerel milk from tiny transparent cups. Mosquito tinctures will be poured into delicate liqueur glasses. Seventeen six-year-old girls in pink robes embroidered with blue and gold patterns will dress a thirteen-year-old girl in a yellow dressing gown. Round mirrors will be encircling the room. Brown dolls will sit on an orange rug.
It will be a time of extraordinary differentiation and syntheses. A time of extraordinary virtuosity and an unprecedented flourishing of the arts. There will be orchestras of people playing thousand-stringed instruments (violins, piano, harps). Skillful textiles (tapestries, lace, embroidery) will require thousands of hands for their creation. Multi-armed, multi-eared, and multi-eyed experts (critics, listeners, and spectators) will live a busy life. Thousand-legged ballerinas, actresses, and actors will perform in front of multi-headed, multi-eyed, and multi-eared audiences. An extraordinary complexity of orchestrations, polyphony of sounds, and complexity and subtlety of weaving and coloring will be achieved with a minimum of effort. What for an ordinary being would require thousands of years of life will be done in one year or even less (almost in a day).
Blue ampullae with transparent centipedes floating inside them will be interspersed with golden boxes. On the roof and at the entrance to a pavilion, flags with silver images of three-armed lizards will flap in the wind. Seventeen seven-year-old girls in blue robes embroidered with pale yellow, black, and gold patches will wander among silver rods, trellises, and wheels. Pink large panes of glass will alternate with stone reliefs. The spires of medieval towers will rise above moonlit roofs. Spindly ladders will catch the hands of clocks and they will stop, ringing out the one hundred and twenty-third hour of the night. Fluffy five-headed cats will blow wooden trumpets with hoarse voices. Mozart will tap the heel of his leather boot against the cobblestones of the sidewalk. A gray door with a black ring will open and one hundred and seventy billion granite steps will lead the visitor down to a basement room, where the roar of organ pipes will shake the beer foam in tall crystal tankards.
Black sails will fill with wind and the bulging black-tarred sides of ships will cut through churning gold waves. Blue turquoise on a pirate’s chest and silver half-moons will blend into his black hair. A gray-haired waiter will bend over with a plate. The Spanish mantillas of dancing girls will trail along the floorboards.
Thousand-armed saxophonists will blow their instruments. Mozart, leaning on his elbow, will look at the thousand-headed girls adorned with tall and lush white wigs. Their puppets will open and roll their eyes.
Translated by Alex Warburton