12-05-2007, 04:42 AM
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omg, short. D:
He thought it must be terrible not to care. Maybe everything was all the same in the end, but it certainly wasn't the end yet and it wouldn't be for a while. He could not care when he was dead, right? So if he wasn't going to care now, wouldn't he just be better off dead? Suicide was not really a concept he was familiar with, but it seemed like a pretty logical step forward from the absurdism that the other described. If nothing mattered, then certainly life and death didn't and you didn't have to bother much with death so it was the easiest, right? Arkham had absolutely no desire to be dead.
He thought it must be terrible not to care. Maybe everything was all the same in the end, but it certainly wasn't the end yet and it wouldn't be for a while. He could not care when he was dead, right? So if he wasn't going to care now, wouldn't he just be better off dead? Suicide was not really a concept he was familiar with, but it seemed like a pretty logical step forward from the absurdism that the other described. If nothing mattered, then certainly life and death didn't and you didn't have to bother much with death so it was the easiest, right? Arkham had absolutely no desire to be dead.
Do you want to die?he asked bluntly, curiously, as innocent as ever and not realizing just how outrageously deep of a question he was asking. Then again, if he had, he might have realized that "want" wouldn't be a concept that Castor grasped very well if he was really such a nihlist.