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Literary Inquiry [ Video ]

[ 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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Well, if it helps, I kind of know what that feels like. I met the older version of this guy I hated, but the older version was friends with an older me in an other time stream. Gotta love Time Paradoxes.

They certainly make things interesting. Luckily I haven't met anyone from my direct future, and I'm not sure I wan to.

Yeah, I think that would be weird. At least the guy I met wasn't from my time stream, so the things he knew weren't exactly the same.

Weren't from your timeline? What does that mean?

Okay, how to do this....

Think of time streams, as well, streams. See, mine was flowing one way, and then this big boulder smacked down in the middle and split it in two. So now you have one time-stream or universe, whichever you want to call it, flowing one direction, and the one I'm in flowing the other. So there are two me's, in two different universes, our lives playing out totally different.

Does that make sense?

[She has to think about it for a second.]

Actually... yeah. That does make sense. And here I thought I was going to be confused about it for days, like most things about this place.

Maybe reading those books did help... because it kind of confused me at first, but somehow I learned to rationalize it in my head.

But, good, awesome, so you get it.

And don't worry, stuff about this place still confuses me and it's been almost a year.

Same here, actually. I've been here for almost a year too, and I'm still learning so much. Lucky for me, people don't really mind explaining things.

I think you could be here forever and you'd still need things explained to you. There's a lot of similarities, I'm finding, but enough differences you always have to ask.

I'm finding a lot of similarities between the worlds, that's for sure. Though I'm pretty sure I'll always be a bit behind, but that's okay. I don't really mind.

You never know, you might catch up, or suddenly find yourself the most advanced. Life is like that sometimes - one minute you're the smartest in the room and the next you're in the dunce cap.

Well, hopefully I never have to wear the dunce cap in subjects I actually enjoy. Fighting can't be that different in different time periods, can it?

Aaaaaah.... you might be surprised. Ever heard of a nuclear bomb?

I was hoping for more hand-to-hand combat. But do I even want to know what those things are?

Not really. They're bad though. They're the kind of things that make people think twice about starting wars.

Hand to hand is still taught, but it's not as prevalent anymore. A lot of combat is long-distance now or gun-based. Hand-to-hand is something for self-defense, not warring.

Hm. I can see my world leaning towards breaking away from hand-to-hand battles, but with the powers from my world, I don't think we'll completely lose it. Our weapons will only becoming something to enhance their powers.

Well, you never know. No one ever thought we'd come up with something like the nuclear bomb or drone warfare, but we have. Sad fact of life, warfare evolves damn quick.

War brings out some nasty sides to people. I don't think I'm ready for it to evolve that quickly though. I think I'm ready for just some peace.

I wish you luck in finding that, I really do. I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Yeah, I think I'm more on the fighter side. Just more, protecting people kind of fighting. I usually don't go off and start fights.

Oh, I get that. You have to fight the good fight, but don't go starting wars, you know?

Exactly. Though I'm not scared to shut someone up if need be.

I'm finding a lot of people are like that here.

And you aren't?

Now, I never said that. I just said I'm finding a lot of people like it too.

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