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RE: #finishthestory Week 37: The End of the Beginning
You understood that there was a more-concrete-than-what-it may-seem plot, didn't you?
He had come here for one purpose: to save existence as everyone understood it.
Yet you sinked it in a sea of ontology and gnoseological, dialectic musings.
I understood now your question about conscience and consciousness. You took a very hard way in this ending. I like the idea of probing the limits of language, where words fail because there's just the absolute, known to itself.
From the moment I read the prompt, all I could imagine was some sort of universal, interdimensional reset. It was like the Flood or the Second Coming, but an even more fundamental overturning of the existing order of the universe, and I imagined a protagonist sent to stop such an inevitability--the height of human hubris--but then, once he was faced with that paramount moment, he finds himself actually enchanted by the promise of such a reset. It's flirting with the psyche's death drive, but on a cosmic level.
I like this comment almost more than the story itself!
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The fiction mad lab is conducting its 38th experiment! You've time till next Wednesday to give life to your fiction creature.. will you dare to play with Nature's rules once again?