Chapter 27 page 26 ~ This projection has been adjusted to reflect the current state of Gender Feels
Hey everyone — after the end of this chapter, I’ll be doing another In-Character Q&A. (Possibly the Last One, and then it’s all straight on toward the climax.)
If you have questions for any of the But I’m A Cat Person characters, start asking now!
[racebend!]
Patrick: Does this mean your self-image is a woman today?
Camellia: For now! And uninjured, too.
Patrick: Both those things are really pretty!
Camellia: Aw, thanks.
[brush brush]
Sparrow: Hey, have I told you I have a theory of my own? About why these old walls and things sometimes show up here.
If this was made with leftover creation-of-the-world energy . . . you’d expect it to be a purely natural version of the world, right? And that’s how the older records describe these places.
But all the versions I’ve seen have bits of human things in them. Because that energy is all in us now. The current Eden is created through us, so our influence ends up rubbing off on it.
Even if it’s lagging by a couple thousand years.
It’s the same energy that animated the Beings . . . the energy they run on, through our orders . . . and you know something, Camellia?
That is an extremely Jewish sentiment and I love it
How so?
Interesting idea on the old walls. Or, say the flow of energy is like a river in a big loop. Humans have been…. ‘flavoring’… the river for thousands of years, but the ‘flavored’ water is just getting back around to showing up.
‘Flavored’ isn’t the right word, but the other words that came to mind were worse.
“influence” is not such a bad word…
Though I don’t like the river metaphor.
I like an ocean metaphor. A huge ocean of primordial energy that humans have been part of for only a small time, geologically speaking.
But our ‘pollution’ is starting to show up even in pristine eden.
Yeah, no, I like “influence” better. At least until bottles and cans and old landfills start to show up…