A. G. Porta: The No World Concerto

The girl dreams she's surrounded by invisible aliens that talk to her incessantly. One of them talks about the planet and its destruction. It's hard to accept that something which took so much time and effort to build up could disappear in an instant. One supreme instant, the voice says, in which the world blows up and vanishes from sight...

Would a mind that creates itself and everything else still have need of success and recognition? It would require a superhuman effort at self-deception...

He's usually accompanied on his travels by the female student's music, which is transmitted from speakers located around the city - her recordings of twelve-tone piano music performed so slowly, with the pauses between notes so long, that the waiting becomes a kind of torment - now a note, then silence, now another - the only interruption occurs on the hour, every hour, when a voice can be heard announcing the time and date...

The universe as a great explosion of thought expanding outward. An instant before, there was nothing, and then, bang! - suddenly , thought began expandingits domain, invading everywhere, conquering its territories, bestowing sense and reason on what had no trouble imagining nothingness, the void.