{"id":7439,"date":"2014-05-01T20:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/a-dimensional-h\/"},"modified":"2014-05-01T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:42:49","slug":"a-dimensional-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/a-dimensional-h\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dimensional Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>The latest bedtime storytime jags come from Moers&#8217;s <em>The 13 1\/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear<\/em>, a fantastic slingshot across Zamonia, equal velocity-measures zany, smart, and surprising. Tonight, Bluebear began his transition away from the Nocturnal Academy and out of life, what is it now?, six?, The Gloomberg Mountains. To leave the school, he has to make his way through an especially disorienting labyrinth. Bluebear walks on and on until walking gives out, Fitbit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/pass.jpg?w=644&#038;ssl=1\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For several hours I remained lying on my back, spreadeagled with my gaze fixed on the roof of the tunnel. I had made up my mind to dematerialize, vanish without a trace, rust away like a piece of old iron, and thus become an integral part of the Gloomberg Mountains. It seems that rusty tunnel walls have an unwholesome effect on overtaxed brains. I would never had entertained such an idea under normal circumstances, but anyone who has brooded for hours will feel, in a truly physical sense, what it&#8217;s like to rust away. 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But his school-friend Qwerty, from the 2364th dimension, comes along, sort of glop-bumps into him, and mentions that he has found a dimensional hiatus&#8211;a portal he knows by smell will, when he plunges into it (if he can summon the courage), <em>jump<\/em> him to another dimension. But Qwerty hesitates to jump, afraid of the unknown.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t spoil it. 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