vagrantx
Tonberry Queen
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Have you read The Egg by Andy Weir? A short story, nay, barely a single page long, but it's stuck with me.If you could live in any fictional universe… which would you pick and why?
I chose that one.
The universe is but an egg, an incubator made to birth a single god. Every life that's ever lived at any point in time, is a reincarnation
of this infant God. And once s/he's lived every single life in the universe, then s/he's ready to be born.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
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