25 April 2010

Let's Begin...

SO... inno

Particular


order

Let's Begin...

Out there, in the wide open universe there is a particular star. A star not unlike our own. It's not anywhere in this galaxy, or the next, or the one after that. In fact its so far away that nothing no matter how fast it could travel could reach it given even a sizable portion of 'forever'. So far away in fact ,that you could almost say that its not part of the same reality we are in now. Almost.

There is a gas giant orbiting this star. The giant its self is entirely unremarkable; very big, very round, and very blue. As the reader begins to get bored, by the unremarkable planet, their attention is drawn to a small moon just beside it. A dark shape just barely visible in the glare from the star in the background.

As the reader is most eloquently narrated towards the surface of the moon it becomes clear that something must be quite remarkable about it. After admiring a final profound description of the barren alien landscape the reader arrives in a small crater about the size of the average backyard swimming pool.

At the bottom of the crater in the very center is a rock. A perfectly round rock. Evidently the cause of the small crater. As the reader peers over at the curious object, they find on the very top of the sphere a small inscription on a polished square of metal:

"So. In no particular order, let's begin."

Why it was written in English is anyone's guess.

2 comments:

  1. I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BUY THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY BEFORE I REVISIT THIS BLOG.

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