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maze
maze (mâz) noun
1. a. An intricate, usually
confusing
network
of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth. b. A physical
situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic
divisions.
2. A graphic
puzzle,
the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate
pattern
of line segments from a starting point to a goal.
3. Something made up of
many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle: a maze of government
regulations.
verb, transitive
mazed, mazing, mazes
Chiefly Southern U.S..
1. To bewilder or astonish.
2. To stupefy; daze. See
Regional Note at POSSUM.
[Middle English mase,
confusion, maze, from masen, to confuse, daze, from Old English
âmasian, to confound.]
In Shippensburg, Pa., the world's largest
maze
twists and turns for two miles.
In
Philip K. Dick's _A Maze of Death_, the
gnostic quest for self-knowledge leads beyond the paranoid web of the
archons into a theological meta-fiction out of Pirandello's _Six
Characters in Search of an Author_. The 1970 novel opens with a group
of colonists congregating on the lush, leafy planet Delmak-O. When they
arrive, their taped instructions are "accidentally" erased. Much of the
remaining plot resembles Agatha Christie's _And Then There Were None_,
as one by one the colonists are murdered or mysteriously die. It's
tough to tell exactly what's happening, since each colonist also sinks
deeper and deeper into his or her own
subjective
reality, becoming increasingly incapable of
communicating with the others.
Erik Davis - _Philip K.
Dick's
Divine Interference_
"The
third
eye had to be re-opened if we were to get out of the maze," Mini
said, "but since we no longer remembered taht we had that ajna faculty,
the eye of discernment, we could not go about seeking techniques for
re-opening it. SOMETHING OUTSIDE HAD TO ENTER, something which we
ourselves would be unable to build."
"So we didnt' all fall into the maze," Fat said.
"No," Mini said.
"And
those that stayed outside, in other star systems, reported back to
Albemuth
that we had done this thing to ourselves... thus VALIS was constructed
to rescue us. This is an irreal world. You realize that,
I'm
sure, VALIS made you realize that. We are in a living maze and
not
in a world at all."
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There was silence as we considered this.
"And what happens when we get outside the maze?" Kevin said.
"We're freed from space
and
time,"
Mini said. "Space and time are the binding, controlling
conditions
of the maze - its power."
Fat and I glanced at each other. It dovetailed with our own speculations - speculations engineered by VALIS.
"And then we never die?" David asked.
"Correct," Mini said.
- Philip K. Dick
-
_VALIS_
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one
sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the
future and in some way involve the stars. -
Jorge Luis Borges
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