Chapter Six
The First Iteration
The first iteration is always lost forever. In stories where time travel plays a part,
the first run through of events is often erased and replaced with a time
loop. Sometimes we get to see the first
iteration in movie or novels, sometimes we don’t. It is the initial condition of the timeline
that must have existed for the future to have existed in order to mess
everything up. But once the hero and villain do their jobs,
by the end of the story that’s gone, replaced by events from the future
(relatively speaking). When I’m in a
philosophical mood, I wonder about how the universe was created in that first iteration,
if there even was one. Was there some
sort of God that go around? If so, was
God then removed from the whole damn equation once the time loop started? Or maybe things have always been like this,
just spinning out of control in great loops of time, seeing to it that they are
created, so that they can create everything else. Destiny’s self-creating banquet had to come
from somewhere didn’t it? Is it all just
turtles all the way down?
Maybe that’s the whole damnation of it all. Just the future fucking the past, over and
over, for all eternity. Nothing
else. Just that. A Predestination well.
(c) Copyright 2019 Diana Hignutt
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