Literary Inquiry [ Video ]

[universal_charm]

[ So, Luceti, you have Kirk showing up today on our totally hi-grade, super deluxe communication system (haha, yeah right). Anyways, he's there, and he currently has a copy of George Orwell's "1984" displayed in hand. ]

So... I have an honest to god sort of question for everyone. 

How many of you ever thought or believed the stuff in books like this would come true in the future? Or better yet, does anyone actually live in a world like these books describe?

Because, really, the twenty-first century view of the future is... interesting. 

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[stilldontgotit]

Big Brother is watching you.

[He snorts. Yeah, he's taken a look at that book before. Kind of grim, honestly.]

Anyway, it really wouldn't surprise me if worlds like that existed. Some of the places I've seen were pretty bleak. No Thought Police or anything, but I've dealt with evil computer programs obsessed with making a perfect world.

[universal_charm]

You know, I wish that sounded as farfetched as it really should have, but it doesn't. It just doesn't. And I don't know what that says about me anymore.

[stilldontgotit]

You think a computer network's weird? I've seen the insides of a whale twice and didn't even get digested.

[Then again, Monstro's insides were just plain weird. Colorful blotches you can bounce on? Yeah, that's not what he remembers from biology class.]

[universal_charm]

Not a computer network, but one having sentience enough to go rogue and be labeled as 'evil'? Yeah, that's a bit out there.

So, what, should I start calling you Jonah then?

_{[ Haha, Bible jokes. He's not sure if Riku will get that one, but it was worth a shot anyways. ]}

[stilldontgotit]

Well, these programs acted just like people. Looked like them, too.

[Just, you know, with neon spandex. Not how he'd envision programs, but at least they're personable.]

And I don't know. I wasn't exactly heroic back then, plus, I wasn't even the first to get swallowed up. Monstro had this habit of chowing down on everything in his path, even space ships.

[universal_charm]

Yeah, I still wish that sounded weirder than it does....

Huh. So, he's kind of like the space-age Moby Dick then.

[stilldontgotit]

Sure, all you'd have to do is dump white paint all over him and throw in one eccentric captain out for his head.

[He snorts.]

None of us really cared to hunt him, though; we were more concerned with getting out in one piece.

[And, well, he might have tried kidnapping a puppet, but that goes unsaid.]

[universal_charm]

_{[ There's a pause as he considers that, eyes narrow a bit, but he can't help it. He has to ask. ]}

So... what entrance did you come out of?

[stilldontgotit]

Neither.

[Fortunately. The idea of getting coated in whale slobber isn't exactly appealing.]

Sometimes you luck out and find convenient loopholes... like hopping through portals.

[With darkness, at that. Sure, he kinda ditched his best friend, but he'll leave that detail out for now.]

[universal_charm]

Oh, well, that's a hell of a lot better than what I was thinking.

... You can use portals?

[stilldontgotit]

Hah. Used to use them all the time... Problem is, I had to draw on my darkness to create them, and, well...

[To make a long story short.]

Let's just say darkness isn't good for your health.

[universal_charm]

I'll have to take your word for it, but I didn't think it would be. In general, going to the Dark-side sounds like it's bad for your health.

Still, it's better than getting out the, uh, organic ways.