Lovely! Ontological mysteries are always fun, and the narrator’s voice is extremely engaging, with this combination of sheer enthusiasm and simple vocabulary being used to describe complex thoughts. A bit disappointed it didn’t speed up towards some sort of resolution, though: the story works as an exploration of the joys of learning, but it’s a bit too long for its message, started to drag on for me in the last third.
I’ve written some stuff but this is the only thing I’ve put together that I’m halfway willing to throw around in public, everything else is either worse or weirder or both. Glad you liked it! Maybe someday I’ll figure out the sequel.
Lovely! Ontological mysteries are always fun, and the narrator’s voice is extremely engaging, with this combination of sheer enthusiasm and simple vocabulary being used to describe complex thoughts. A bit disappointed it didn’t speed up towards some sort of resolution, though: the story works as an exploration of the joys of learning, but it’s a bit too long for its message, started to drag on for me in the last third.
Still, very fun. Have you written anything else?
I’ve written some stuff but this is the only thing I’ve put together that I’m halfway willing to throw around in public, everything else is either worse or weirder or both. Glad you liked it! Maybe someday I’ll figure out the sequel.