The Riddler invites the riddlee to observe the
bubbles rising in a
glass of
carbonated beverage.
Q: "
What do you see?"
A: "Glorantha." (Or, "the world".)
The bubbles are not the
beverage, but they could not exist as definite entities without the surrounding fluid. The bubble ceases to exist as such when it reaches the surface and escapes the entrapping fluid. By extension, no thing can be defined without appealing to some sense of what that thing is NOT. See
Shel Silverstein's
The Missing Piece and/or
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.
In
Glorantha, there is a popular
metaphysical model that describes the world as a bubble endlessly rising through the seething ferment of Chaos. The
implication is that the
universe could not exist without
Chaos;
IRL, it seems that
love does not exist without
hate,
satisfaction without
hunger, nor
virtue without
vice.
Nysalori riddles