Epigram ‘n Aphorism Samwiches

Write Sci-Fi, But You STILL Won't Get The Girl

i can't selectively delete portions of myself.

though, in a science fiction novel --
a man has the ability to reverse aging
back to when he was young and chiseled, a blond Adonis, but
carries all the baggage of his younger years behind a blue-eyed façade. But,
he has unlimited access to a time machine (with no stipulations for outcome)
and goes back (and forward) to meet the most beautiful women --
just to know if he is worthy of their attention, and learns
it's having lived that's more important than physical appearance, but
his looks are what first informed him he was (finally) acceptable to others before,
one by one, they rejected him because he was lacking
confidence, independence and a vision for his life, because
he was stuck -- stuck in a childhood that imprisons him in the after life,
future life, in his travels throughout outer space -- black, black void, space.

fictional men in sci-fi novels, written to life, are wrong (sorry Han), because
their nerdy masters (with the fire of all spite) do not know how to envision
failure before it repeats itself. and cliché, and true.
just ask Einstein, who has a handy quip, stupid.


3.13.23

this needs further vision, information, but like a writer, crafting a cautionary tale for oneself.
we are not who we seem, even in imagination.