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But, a week later, every book, movie, song,
nation, user-interface, compression algorithm, and
disarmament agreement was based on this idea, and
I was forced to sue the universe for breach of
cognition and violation of ab genome
copyright.
The suit dragged on for a few trillion decades, then was finally decided in my favor. As a result, the defendants (including most of the industries of the world) were all forced to change the format and content and name and nature of everything they did. From then on, whatever new product they |
came out with, it had to be called "Lust for Stasis." -- in honor, of course, of me, and the title of one of my many failed, and never completed, and never published autobiographies of bitterness and despair.
It was now more clear to me than ever, that all the petty, slimy stuff of the world existed only as a metaphor for all the stuff that was supposed to not be petty and slimy, but couldn't exist in its own right. Just like birds and airplanes and MIRVs only existed, in the first place, to serve as metaphors for what the mind could do if it weren't strapped to the world by emotion, and pain, and the bogus
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