1: Ignominy

I am falling, falling into blackness. Is this a dream? There's no feelings here. No sense of touch, neither light, nor sound. I lurch, hoping to grasp something, knowing beforehand the futility of the effort. But am I even moving? I cannot say. I try to remember the last thing I did, the last place I was, but as I try to graze my memory buds, I find the darkness engulfing me. It is complete, omnipresent, omnipotent. I (cannot)see any past, nor think about the future. It is just me, the evanescent present, and my conscience.

But I am thinking, ain't I? I still have the power of speech! What else? I can move my body. The semantic and procedural memories seem to be fine. What is happening to me? Wait...why do I know this kind of classifications? I feel so tired....

How long have I been like this? How old am I?
Are these even valid questions?.....
Is this whole creation just my mind? What am I?

My brain seems to be in overdrive...it being stripped of its responsibilities. No sensory input, no episodic data, no worries, no pain. Everything is too peaceful, too bland. It can't always have been like this.

Posted by : Varun Torka on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | Labels: |

 

1 comments:

Eruditus said...

I can't wait to read the next chapter..this is going to be fun...the suspense is killing me.
jaldi likh na!

May 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM  

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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.