I rather like the idea that the changes you make do not survive you - that like U K LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven, both you and whatever you did cancel out at your passing.
The world stands in awe of El Supremo and the new inland sea he created, and it's understandable that he would carve a mountain into his likeness… He stands with upraised hand, acknowledging the praise… but when he dies he is vaporised in the Orwellian sense. No grave, no mourners - no inland sea either, and the mountain is untouched. El Who? No such person ever existed.
Sure, there have always never been superheroes in every no age of history.
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Date: 2019-12-24 11:25 am (UTC)I rather like the idea that the changes you make do not survive you - that like U K LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven, both you and whatever you did cancel out at your passing.
The world stands in awe of El Supremo and the new inland sea he created, and it's understandable that he would carve a mountain into his likeness… He stands with upraised hand, acknowledging the praise… but when he dies he is vaporised in the Orwellian sense. No grave, no mourners - no inland sea either, and the mountain is untouched. El Who? No such person ever existed.
Sure, there have always never been superheroes in every no age of history.