Dansvela
The Idiot leans from the margin of this page, his shadow cast onto your mind. Before you begin, forget what you know.
Time is not a straight line, but an embrace between echo and silence.
Have you ever felt that a memory is not your own?
That the beat of your heart echoes in another galaxy?
Only questions exist, multiplying like fleeing universes.
The first clock was a wound.
Someone, in some ancient desert, counted the drops of blood falling from their side and said:
-*This is an hour.*
Then we invented calendars to domesticate death.
But time, like a wounded animal, never obeyed.
Now you stare at your phone and think you see truth.
The Idiot laughs.
He knows every number is a hieroglyph scribbled by a madman.
-*Why should I believe in this book?*
-*You ask as if truth were something that exists outside of you.*
-*What if it's all a lie?*
-*Lies are the atoms of gods.*
-*What will you gain from this?*
-*Nothing.*
-*Then why write it?*
-*For the same reason a river flows: because the abyss beckons.*
-*Are you God?*
-*I am the Idiot. Worse: I am the echo of a question you never asked.*
-*How will this story end?*
-*With a period that will turn into a comma, and a comma that will sprout like a big bang.*
Now breathe.