Dragaera

The Wheel of Suck

Wed May 12 12:30:17 PDT 2004


On Wed, 12 May 2004, Howard Brazee wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:51:22 -0400 (EDT), John Klein
> <zarkon at illrepute.org> wrote:
>
> > @> Because our world isn't a circle on a wheel.   We are building a
> > better
> > @> world for the future.
> >
> > I dunno if you're living in the same world I am.
> >
> > Sorry to be a downer, but the future is that everyone will die and
> > entropy
> > will eventually succeed in dissociating every fundamental particle in the
> > universe from every other fundamental particle.
>
> Is that the story he's trying to tell?   That nothing matters in the
> end?   If so, then let him do so.   That might be interesting in a short
> work, but not in an endless series.


This was sort of the theme of (the semi-endless series about) Elric,
wasn't it?

Also note that Norse mythology has the gods losing in the end...