Big I, Eye, Aye.

I’m posting this here so I can access it easier. And if anyone thinks a tangent seems interesting and I should expand, please tell me

- not technically a vacuum because they are in it

- vacuum strips them of everything but fear?

- why?

- strips everything but the core of what humans are?

In medieval Europe </wiki/Middle_Ages>, the Catholic Church held the idea of a vacuum to be immoral or even heretical. The absence of anything implied the absence of God </wiki/God>, and harkened back to the void prior to the creation story in the book of Genesis </wiki/Genesis>.”
- characters seem to be able to think in the void, so do their thoughts fill the void? No… is the void conscious? Does that make it not a void? Yes… then why do they only experience immense fear? Could happiness not fill the void? Because unknown?
- If the void is conscious/active enough to push out human happiness… Hell = oppression of every sense?

Void is bad because no God. Does that leave only the devil? Is the book not completely devoid of God/morality?

Alternatively…

- Make up a mythology using bits and pieces of religion. You don’t know why exactly you’re afraid, but you are because it seems like you learnt that this is bad and you shouldn’t do it a long time ago.
- use of symbolism to build terror.
- selling of soul idea to Devil-character plotline
- Is Mamoulian the Devil?
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I surrender. Retreat! Retreat!

Epic of Gilgamesh is… not going to happen. I think I could do it, but I know that I’d be half insane by the end of it, and completely hating it. I wouldn’t do it justice, and I actually want to sit and think about this for awhile. Not just throw myself at it for a pat on the head for trying and an okay mark. :P

So, I’m reading it (I finished the Damnation Game a month or two ago). I’m thinking about it too. I’ll post my thoughts and stuff on here, but I’m not trying to linearize (totally a word) all my jumbly thoughts. I’d just like a good think, no strings attached.

All done my ramble of concession.