We've connected the hourglass with the lemniscate or figure-eight, and the lemniscate with two letter Ds. Here we have an hourglass in the shape of two letter Ds, and a figure-eight next to it. The lemniscate has been connected with the door as a portal to another time. Here we see how the neck of the hourglass functions as a gate or door, and passing through that gate are tiny clocks, each apparently representing one Planck time.
An hourglass resembles a figure-eight, but the lemniscate of infinity is a lazy eight. If you turned an hourglass on its side, wouldn't that represent stopping the flow of time?
Notice also the geometric relationship between the DD-hourglass and 101.
The /x/ post has the subject line "Quantum Spacetime is the Holy Grail," and the text of the post is as follows:
The Grail isn't anything you might have heard it is except for perhaps the generative principle of nature itself. We are all within the grail. This is how God comes to know us. We are like fish in a great ocean, bound to our school. When the question is asked the realm is restored.
The first reply (not clear if it's the OP or someone else) adds:
Time is the chalice that holds within it Space.Space is the great wine dark Ocean of LifeSpace is Fortified by Life.Drink well and be drunken of! This is the final commandment!
Time as a grail or chalice fits with my thoughts on the Temperance card as (among other things) a symbol of the passage of time.
"Drink well and be drunken of," in connection with "quantum spacetime," brings to mind these lines from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.""What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?""You ask a glass of water."
"Drink well and be drunken of! This is the final commandment!" -- this sounds so exactly like Aleister Crowley that I was certain it was him and tried to search out which of his books it came from. But apparently it's not the Beast himself at all, just a pitch-perfect pastiche by this anon.
Note added: I found the source of the image in the /x/ post. It's from page 88 of a Scientific American magazine.
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Page 88! And strangely enough, part of that article syncs up with something in my upcoming email. (I hope to be done by the end of the week, but don't hold me to that.)
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