h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The cube, a big steel cube maybe four or five meters high, is in the middle of a dark valley, seen from above as if I'm lying in the grass at one edge of the valley. The ground is covered in black gravel, interspersed with blackened grass. In the background is a looming hurricane, which is blowing the red petals off the roses right in front of me. In the valley below, a white horse in stark contrast to its surroundings is trying to climb up the cube using a wooden ladder that looks as if it's going to break under the weight of the horse. The storm is hindering its progress, as is the fact that it sometimes gets its legs stuck between the rungs.

Having read the answer, I'm not sure I like my image at all...

I hope it is a glitch at the cube, and not a true reflection


Dancer

Yeah, it sounds like it's got problems....

The thing I find to be weirdest about the whole thing is that it all comes from your own mind, like there are things your brain knows but doesn't tell you. Why this particular grouping of things would bring it out I don't know, but if it works...

Does it seems like it's true? I mean, when you think about it, does it tell you anything?

Thanks Dancer.

As for what it tells me... I'm not sure. I'm a bit disturbed by the fact that my horse might destroy my ladder, and that the hurricane is destroying my flowers. I can't tell whether the ladder hindering the horse's progress is a good or a bad thing. I'm not sure I want the horse -on- the cube. I have no idea what the horse would be, btw. (I'm trying my best not to spoil it for people who haven't read the answer, so for those who have read it; replace "what" by a more appropriate word.)

Not that I know anything for real, but to me it seems as though your ladder can't withstand the stress of the horse. It also brings up a question of why the horse wants to be on top of the cibe, and why it is using the ladder...

Id din't fully understand the placement of the flowers, like where they were - Is this all seen from above the valley, like on the side of a cliff or something?

I have absolutely no idea why the horse wants to get up on the cube. It suggests some kind of domination to me, kind of like when you "defeat a mountain". The term "king of the hill" comes to mind.

For the record, I'm not even sure how one would go about using the ladder... Might explain the difficulties.

The valley isn't very deep, and it's easy to walk down into it, there are no steep cliffs or anything. I view the valley lying in the grass/gravel on.. well, you might call it the ridge surrounding the valley. Thus, since the flowers are right in front of me, in the foreground of the picture, they're quite a bit away from the action down in the valley.

It is funny, but when I try to imagine it by what you wrote it folds up and looks like an M.C. Escher image, where up is also down and vice versa, with the sides wrapping around


Dancer

I think I can kind of see the landscape...

What is the ladder like, exactly?

It's weird, some people have a ladder that they can rattle off every little detail about. I myself can't see the ladder very clearly, even to see where it is in relation to the cube other than it's not touching it.

Mine isn't touching the cube ether. Actually the cube is far from everything else, and is stuck into the sand of the dune ...

With the storm farthest away, and the other stuff much closer to the viewer then the cube (Including the bonus tree).


Dancer

It's just an ordinary looking wooden ladder.