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The first page of my "Fantasy/Attempted Comedy" story, The Last Philosopher.
I've been rewriting it again, but this first page still has some issues.
The question is would you keep reading? ☺️

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Part one: With a Capital D “For every extreme there are infinite in-betweens.” -Boole, extreme logick philosopher The Darkness of nothing was creeping into the first universe. A lot like the nothing always creeping under a child’s bed. Except on a somewhat larger and less terrifying scale. In another comer, a displaced black hole — orbiting the edge of an odd galaxy — was spinning out of control from the force of its own outrage. This all-consuming Afreet called Richard, long for Dick, was furious at all the untraditional things in what it considered to be its galaxy. Beings like this black hole should perhaps not be possible. Even so, in the senile dimensions of the multiverse; every oddity that can occur has already occurred. And the race of demi-gods were here to prove that fact. That stinky blue ball Huom is to blame! Dick thought. In this, the black hole was almost correct. Because as much as a cluster of stars can belong to anything, this galaxy belonged to the planet Huom. Because once upon a time, the blue-green ball had been the first and only living being. The original Afreet and sole inhabitant of the galaxy that Dick was now orbiting. It wasn't until much later that the black hole’s singularity penetrated the cosmos, becoming the second demi-god. Ever since Dick was forced into existence, it has been been disgusted at everything in particular.
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    This is why I'm not allowed to teach literature... anymore 😜😂

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    254 — How do you use social media as an author?

    Frequent "buy my book" - is annoying and I am good at not spending time looking at that

    Ridiculous hype, unhelpful quotes "eighth book in the VoidLords series", bad covers don't help.

    I offer some advice and support free. Response to questions is what I do for interest, not 'advice' by and large.

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    254 — How do you use social media as an author?

    On X, Bluesky, Masto, FB, I have a newsletter and a website-blog (which needs remodelling).

    I sometimes offer paid services on them, it has rarely been harder to work as an author and if this offends, unfollow me please. I offer some advice and support free.

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    I offer paid support for authors, manuscript assessment and media/confidence skills,
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