If the entire universe was converted into a novel, down to the smallest particles, what do you think its overall "plot" would be? Themes? Message?
>>7972208
Time.
It's a really stupid question.
>>7972208
Destruction and rebirth? Man always destroys and rebuilds each time. Repeating the same mistakes.
>>7972208
it's a short story about things getting too hot so everyone climbs into a refrigerator and can't get out
Meaning is arbitrary, everything happens in cycles.
Cycles (nothing really ends, it just changes form)
Duality (Push/Pull, every action has a reaction)
Existentialism (Nothing really matters in the scheme of things)
>>7972208
It's mostly empty but really really big.
So Infinite Jest
>>7972223
Well, man is pretty irrelevant in cosmic scale, but if the universe is cyclical as some believe, it makes sense.
Art exists not by itself. It requires a reader / viewer / consumer. Who would consume such a book? Only God could. A human being couldn't finish it in its lifetime. And even then, the whole universe is filled with so much useless data. Reading that book would be like reading html and css text in Wordpad instead of just using a browser.
Its theme, assuming there are no worlds other than this one, would be everything. Its messages would be universal laws of physics. (Morality is a human invention and too relative.) Its plot would be predictable because it's predetermined.
It would be a shitty book, but autists and neckbeards would probably love it because "muh complex worldbuilding".
>>7972208
memes are the highest form of being. One cannot be if one does not Kek.
>>7972208
It would be a novel about energy dissipation.
really long.
>>7972743
It would be the first one, if the dog is just a picture imitating the photo. If, however, the dog is IRL, this would become a scientific question to find out which position has better balance. I'm not a scientist.
Its a short story about a universe that gets trapped in a book and cant get out.
tl;dr
Just read Genesis
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The more fun question: who would be the main character?