BREAKER OF INFINITIES 4-145
After wandering further, Prim came across a crater many miles across. The edges were smooth, like glass, and curved inwards, down into a steadily increasing darkness, where at the bottom Prim could barely see a hole. The hole was extremely unpleasant to look at. Not a single mote of light touched it. As she took in this unsettling sight, Prim was shocked to see the distant figures of people, crawling up the edge of the crater, and steadily but inevitably sliding into the massive hole, where they were swallowed.
A croaking cough emerged a short distance away from Prim, and she beheld an unbelievably filthy and emaciated old man, who was clothed only in a ragged sheet draped over his head and body. He had a staff, like a shepherd, and it was broken at the tip.
“What is this place?” said Prim, trying to hide her disgust.
The man wet his dry lips, and said, “This is the end of the road. Or one of its ends anyway.” He motioned to the hole.
“The hole?” said Prim.
“If you go into the hole,” said the man, “you will very definitely die. Your entire existence will be permanently obliterated, almost instantly. It is very painful and causes tremendous scarring. The filth from your obliterated corpse will spread into the air like ash and sicken people for years.”
“It’s not the cleanest way to reach the end,” he said, hacking out a dry cough, “but its very easy.” He leered at Prim with a brown-toothed smile, as if expecting her to agree.
Prim left immediately.
Is this one of those ‘girl bosses’ I’ve heard so much about?
O Jadis, with all due respect, can you shut it already? In universe build upon lies there’s nothing that’s matter – including any kind of determinism.
Also, I have a question – is your Key of Mind allows you to see future of to tell better lies? Is there any difference?
You know what? I’m going with this. Jadis is (hopefully) not just saying “Choose what we’ll have for breakfast.” but instead “Choose breakfast, instead of suffering.”
Allison needs to eat, to regain her strength. She needs to regain her strength to fight. She needs to fight to break the wheel and attain heaven through violence.
Jadis isn’t interested in breaking the cycle of inevitability; it’s arguable she cannot. So she wants Allison to choose breakfast, because that’s the inevitable direction of her fate anyway.
LIKE THE ORACLE GIVING THE COOKIE TO NEO
THE COOKIE IS THE ONLY CHOICE!!!
There is no cookie.
I personally would like scrambled eggs and bacon with my existential nihilism.
Still, even if victory is not forever, and how could it ever be?, it is still worth pursuing. Peace will not last, evil will not be gone for good but still one should take up the sword and beat it into the darkness from where it came from. If only for a short while.
B̶̙̱͋ ̴̡̜̳͓̈́ͅR̶͓̣͖̞͉̝͎̊ ̸̮̖͔͉̼̉U̵̙̣͋̇͋́͝ ̴̢̗̥̙̣͓̂̎̕͘N̴̨̰̋̌̍͊ ̷̳̩̲͙̗͎̽̉̒͑͋̓̚ͅC̴̨̼̾͋̿͐̿̊ ̶͉̟͖͍̊̋Ḣ̷͔̙̤̩͔̮̿͘͝
BREAKFAST OF INFINITIES 4-145
You have free will, you have no choice but to.
Pancakes!!!!
Allison’s movements, her stance, it mirrors one I once saw from a pathetic worm like man by the name of Shinji Ikari, he was a master of a style that allowed him to focus his depression (which he had in great amounts) into raw power, shame he was a rancid young man
All youth are rancid, as all adults are rotten and all babes unripe. If you seek perfection in the most tender of fruit, all you shall find is bruises.
You also ignore that that child chose the pursuit of joy at the risk of suffering over the certainty of blissful oblivion, in the end. And that is not a small thing, not at all.
I see you and thank you.
As regards the Prim story: How can instant death and complete obliteration cause tremendous scarring?
It isn’t instant, just fast, with no mention of how long “fast” is, and impossible to reverse. It also creates ash which causes other to suffer.
It looks like a parable on suicide.
A Pyramid is Symbolic. Varying edges and lines that all lead along a path to a single point. An end point, at the very top. Within each other, poised upon the precipice of slopes.
While a Pyramid can signify the Journey and its end, Breakfast is your first choice. Arguably, the most important choice.
Nobody chooses to wake up, but they can choose what to have for breakfast. The Most important meal of the day.
Buzz Buzz
i hope the next page is a hard cut to jadis making pancakes
Wait a tick, I thought choices didn’t matter.
they don’t, but they’re still choices
“You can’t choose anything, lol jk you choose to suffer here’s breakfast”
This is starting to feel like a parody of itself.
your choices are predetermined, but you still choose what you do
For someone who says the future is known and inevitable, she sure uses the word “choose” a lot 🤔
breakfast is a good idea no matter what else you want to do with your day
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The more she talks in contradictory absolutes, the more sure I am that
Alison isn’t gonna enjoy her breakfast… 🙁
There was once a man in a world of monsters and artificial gods. He had lived for a hundred years and had spent the majority of his life killing these monsters. He had no skill, for he had no need for skill; his sheer power alone was worth enough to kill the things he had targeted. A stone slab strapped to his back and a half-spark of life still in his eyes, the flames of magic burned away everything he hated.
He hated for a long time. One day, he could let go of that hatred, and was faced with a witch at the end of the world. She had sent him the greatest enemy that he could face, him, still possessing that half-spark. The past self was killed, without much effort. When he was asked why he did not disappear from time, causality spat and writhed.
He was himself, in that moment. Nobody else could take his place. Meaningless as he may be, there is only one him. Vastness of the expanse would be nothing without every individual part.
Do not give up, Allison. Do not accept the nihilism that makes sense; instead, pray for the oddities than come with following something for no other reason than wanting. Things will come back, in time.
Well, if thisg reality doesn’t mean anything, I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
I thought she said there was no choice.
I just finished reading Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation’.
There were two stories that might interest those pondering Jadis and her abilities:
“What’s Expected of Us” where a simple predictor device drives some people into a torpor and catatonia, much like Jadis.
“Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” where a quantum device allows diverging timelines to communicate with each other from the point of device activation.If Jadis’ predictions are off by an atom, what are the cascading effects?
Breakfast? Now you’re speaking my language!
This is just a typical add for Breakfast cereals in Throne.