Puddle Monsters: Creatures Of The Edge

Monsters seem to need a background and a foreground.

Monsters typically appear in a background and
move to something like a foreground then disappear
into whatever’s functioning as the background.

UFOs appear from over the horizon,
cavort in our sky, disappear in the distance.

Bigfoot creatures appear from out of the tree-line,
walk in front of us, disappear into the trees.

Lake monsters rise from the depths, cruise on the surface
where we see their wake, disappear into the deep.

Monsters seem to need a background and a foreground.

From what background could a puddle monster appear?

The puddle is the foreground but puddles contain
no infinite distance, dark depths or endless trees.

From what background could a puddle monster appear?

How long is the coast-line of Britain? Or how long
is the bounding circumference of a puddle?

It sounds like a simple question but the answer,
like a puddle’s edge, becomes more complicated
the closer you look. There’s an infinity there.
Or there’s something like an infinity because
when the scale becomes small enough nobody knows
what metaphysics—or what creatures—you will find.

I think that’s where puddle monsters live. On the edge.
In the edge. Where ever, what ever, the edge is.

Monsters seem to be creatures of the infinite,
visiting, for a time, our bound reality.

Look carefully at the next puddle you see but
give thought to how close you get, how closely you look.
The edge of the puddle is something infinite
and creatures of the infinite are called monsters.

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“How long is the coast of Britain?” B. Mandelbrot


How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical
Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension, at Wikipedia