Relational Fictions: Frames of Liora: Preface

The world does not yield itself to a single story. Events do not line up neatly in a ledger. Horizons exist not to end experience, but to mark the limits of integration. The universe — whether in physics or in lived reality — continues to actualise, locally, frame by frame, indifferent to any demand for totality.

Frames of Liora is a series of stories born from this insight. Across five narratives, Liora wanders through cities, libraries, mountains, festivals, and rivers, encountering spaces where reality is relational, perspectival, and irreducible to a single global account. Each story enacts a principle first explored in the physics series:

1. Liora and the Clock of Many Faces

   • Events exist locally; breakdown is a misdiagnosis. Singularities in time emerge only when integration is imposed where none is possible.

2. Liora and the Library of Shifting Pages

   • Eventhood is frame-relative. Multiple narratives coexist, coherent in their own sequence, yet non-integrable across frames.

3. Liora and the Mountain That Was Two

   • Observer-dependence is real. A “view from nowhere” cannot exist; perspectives may be simultaneously true, yet irreconcilable.

4. Liora and the Festival of Mirrors

   • Locality does not require metaphysical totality. Reality can be inhabited fully, even when perspectives conflict or overlap.

5. Liora and the River That Remembered Nothing

   • Horizons, memory, and actuality are relational. One can engage fully with a world that refuses complete knowledge; the river continues to flow, frame by frame, moment by moment.

These stories do not attempt to integrate every perspective. They do not resolve contradictions, fold all sequences into one narrative, or reconcile incompatible truths. That is the point. Liora teaches — and the reader experiences — that living relationally requires attention to local actualisation, respect for horizons, and engagement without totality.

Read these tales as one might move through a landscape: wandering, pausing, observing, returning. Each story is complete in its own frame, and yet the series as a whole gestures toward a richer, non-integrable reality — one where truth is always relational, always partial, and always luminous in the perspective that encounters it.