Hello, Adventurers!
Today’s haiku comic is another one of my time travel comics from my upcoming zine, Spare Bits of Waiting.
thanks to my machine I have lived a thousands lives none of them happy
The Beauty of a Finite Life
One of my favorite tropes in speculative fiction is the miserable, lonely immortal character. These characters often have sought some form of immortality and then obtained it only to discover centuries or eons later that they are miserable having outlived everyone they love. They are tired of living but cannot seem to die.
I first wrestled with this idea when I read the book Tuck Everlasting when I was eight. Eight-year-olds think they’re immortal. The gap between a child and their parent might as well be a thousand years in the mind of an eight-year-old.
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