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Existential Terror and Breakfast 4 [preview]

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Epiphanies taste better with toast.

Malcolm Steadman had been staring at his toaster waiting for his pop-tart to finish cooking for what seemed like a full ten minutes. That is because it had been a full ten minuets. It took Malcolm another two minutes to realize this. This upset him.

The toaster had to be broken.

This, in any normal circumstances would be less of a problem, but Malcolm had been experiencing a string of terrible epiphanies too profound for him to handle and earnestly just needed a break from such heavy thinking. He was just supposed to eat his toast, ignore the injustices of carbon, pretend that he had agency and go to work, and ignore the bleak ocean of banalities and Wednesdays ahead of him. The toaster breaking, however, meant that he was now thinking about entropy...READ MORE AT REVFITZ.COM!!!<---


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Pheenixorphan's avatar
Only to find out it was just unplugged. I just love that Lolz.
All that and it was just unplugged.

Though that got me thinking on death. Like humans will probably off themselves and then all the history and items of us will be left behind. Maybe it'll just fade away, maybe another race of creatures will emerge and put up our stuff in museums like how we put up dinosaur bones.
Looking at it in awe, wondering what humans were and how they seem awesome when really we were just people. Nothing more, nothing less. But they wouldn't know that. We'd just become a fictional fantasy for them. Put up as exotic creatures in their films and novels, assuming they'd create entertainment like that.

Only so they go extinct and the cycle starts again.

My mind could loop for hours on this. 0_o I better stop. Good read!