2: Extrospection


The sudden flash of light surprised the darkness, and made it skip a beat and die for a fleeting moment. I could not make out whether the flash was within or without me. It was a picture .That is all I could make out. Was it even for real or I just imagined it?
...anyways where can I be? could I have been...meditating! I could have been meditating hard and entered this place...or time or whatever it is?

No not meditation, I don't feel the spiritual vibe... don't feel anything...am I dead? What is being dead? I can think, even speak maybe! I can't be dead? Can anyone be?

It is flashing again. This time it is staying longer. And as it fades away again,I can see a T-shirt with something written on it. Why is it so nerdy? All mathematical symbols or is it in the greek alphabet? I could retain the them at the end, but nothing before that.

Can I be one of those mad scientists?
Wait! If I don't have any memory, how am I even thinking these things? Its like I have a dictionary but I have no stories to read? I have results of my experiences stored in a part of my brain, but no experiences to think back upon.

...Here it is
"Don't give it to them".

It flashed brighter and longer this time and as if something was just waiting for me to read it, suddenly I can see a ray of light breaking in at a distance.

I think I am moving towards it. I can't gauge the speed but I feel I am moving fast.Or maybe its because I want to. I have started feeling cold, as I am nearing the ...tunnel..wow! its a tunnel, like a wormhole.

So, what am i going to get out of?
A time machine, having just had a time travel for the first time? A coma, in a hospital bed? Out of my daily sleep, where i won't remember any of this when I wake up? or out of my new mother's womb?
Anything will do.

6 comments:

Varun Torka said...

hey...i ll post in the evening....
btw...some points are unclear..what actually do u mean by that screen and its aspect ratio?
when things are flashing..is it on the screen or in thin air?
also, i think its should be better if the post is edited a little formally, like capital 'I's and other trivial stuff... :)

Eruditus said...

by the screen i meant the screen of our thoughts...you know everything you think is in the form of videos and images...so the thing inside your head which shows these media content.
ya i will do the formal editing..the trivial stuff i can do but the more important one ...i am not that good at it.so feel free and edit

Varun Torka said...

oy...still..i dnt think any general reader will get the screen thing

Eruditus said...

k. i'll think of something else.
nywys for continuing the story furher i have a plot but if you don't like it we can change it becaue even i am not too sure about it.
will do it by evening.k?

Varun Torka said...

sure...waise i think we arn't supposed to discuss the story...that wud leave the suspense pure.

Eruditus said...

k
so let's continue anyway we want..no need of consensus.Bas we have to be sure they amalgamate well.

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Edits

Humans are here to make mistakes and better ones to correct them and those who still want something else to do document them...here...
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by Varun: Slight edits to
Opera - Trivial solution to Taleb problem implmnted.
Cherole - changed the name in last line
Machinations - added a line for time perspective. Melee - used full name of Mine
Hope the authors don't mind.
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Suggestion: @kinari
Lets keep mine and drake separate. You ll have to change one reference.
Implementaion:
Done now he is our Dr. Debye
by Varun
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Suggestion: @Amrit
Add quotation marks, wherever you want to show conversation.
Implementation:

Self Edit:

Edited "Mother" to "Machination" in Chapter8 and made some other subtle changes. Most imortantly reducing two demos to one.
by Tejesh
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Loose Ends

Space for collaboration among authors.

its ok if Taleb is not Kid. but i wanted kid to be a mentor of cherole. taleb can be a different person.
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The problem of Mr. Taleb:
The problem is that Mr. Taleb is a living real person. So at most we can use it as a referense to a theory which he has proposed in reality. We cannot make him the main character in our story "the kid". What I suggest is - Lets keep Taleb as Cherole's mentor. But after that leave Taleb. Keep Kid (still need to find a name for him) as a friend and an encourager to Cherole. I mentioned it in my chapter. "one other person who discussed it with her".That is Kid
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@kinari: lets keep mine and drake separate. You ll have to change one reference.
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We need a formal name for Kid to use in conversations. Sticking with 'Doctor' for now

I think it would be less hair-pulling crazy if we don't touch each other's technology. Not as if its banned, but the workings.
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oye drake and mine are the same person right? Mine D.!

let the section explode, we have lot of space inthe margin + will get to know what our doubts were in the beginning.- just keep answering on the top so that it is easier for us to read

i did not get the concept of mutation, so i assumed that it won't matter much in the story of the 10th chapter. If you have something in mind introduce the funda later.

ya we can keep 8th chapter a new day altogether.
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Delete the question you are answering...or this section will explode....-

@tejesh: just a suggestion, but I think it would be better if this marked a different day, the first 7/8 chapters fit well together, maybe we can keep them seperate...
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Location can be anywhere, but as the names are American...somewhere there.