[ TT ] The world is an infinite flat plane . The furthest known points of this realm take days to contact by telegraph . Slowly communication ceases from the far west , and slowly the silence pushes closer and closer to home ...

Let there be light, and from beneath the endless skies rose an equally endless stretch of land. Of this old legend every child of the realm was aware of. As were they of the brave unfortunate souls who have attempted to map it in the past. For years there were those who journeyed far into all directions sending back, month after month, pigeons then letters by way of couriers and, finally, wires of ever new settlements found among their voyage. None, however, lived to see the end of land. Thus, the Infinite Kingdom came to bear its name. A name that was called into question by every new generation of explorers. Each covering twice the distance of the one that came before. “ Life is finite and so must be the expanse of land ” they argued. Ironically, this situation repeated itself so much that it had become itself almost infinite. 
 
 But as we entered the age of steam and pistons something changed. The wires suddenly began arriving from nearer outposts. The farther ones never to be heard of again. The'far western silence' it came to be known. Many tried to explain what was happening but those who ventured for answers were never to return. It was not until it became know as the'near western silence' that a brilliant physicist came up with his theory of counter relativity. For if space is infinite then it must be that time is not. And so my fellow readers it was that we came to realize that we are condemned to travel forever east until the end of time.
