Snacko
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 448
Registered: 06-08-2006
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Re: Question game? (+1)
You are standing in the middle of a life. It may be your life, but this does not seem probable: to you it seems as though it lacks warmth. It is missing the hope you have cherished and nurtured so much, certainly a jarring transformation, but there seems to be something else, something you have always deemed far more important. It was as though you had always had an unconscious safeguard in case hope was lost and that it had disappeared, along with the hopes of the mysterious liver (the conjugation amuses you for a brief second, then you decide there are more important thoughts to waste mind-power on), who you feel is more a dreamer, despite the loss of its dreams.
Then you realize what should fill the absence: memory. You reflect for a second on the notion that your present state has been formed entirely by your memory, then realize that perhaps that idea had always been a trap. Did the future not define you just as much? Was it not that void that was yet to be that had driven every one of your actions? You are briefly reminded of a Bradbury story where the human race reacts to the knowledge that it was the last day on Earth not with panic, but with the comfort of the familiar. "The familiar is for those who have no future," you think, "time is change, if I am to live in a changed future I will allow myself to be changed!"
Looking around the life you see The Sins of the Past (which you have just cast off) and the uncreated conscience of Stephen's race, which looks awfully like the uncreated features of Stephen's face, at least in its present state. You also see Culture, which seems to more or less invalidate everything else in the room, but is still an improvement over the otherwise total hopelessness of the situation.
You are holding:
>Regret
>Hope
>Memory
>A pez dispenser in shape of a very baked looking version of Woody from Toy Story
Wait that can't be right, didn't you just discredit the past as irrelevant? What are you attempting to do here? Do you think you have fooled the Fates? Do you think that the future comes only from the present? If it does does the present not come form the past?
To the north you see a door leading back to your own life, ultimately unchanged, to the southwest you see a non sequitur. What do you do?
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Director of the Department of Orderly Disruptions
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