[HN Gopher] End Poem by Julian Gough
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End Poem by Julian Gough
Author : Tomte
Score : 55 points
Date : 2024-07-19 07:48 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theendpoem.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theendpoem.com)
| ccppurcell wrote:
| The inconsistent use of pronouns (it Vs them) and asking for the
| player's name but then almost exclusively referring to "the
| player" spoiled it for me a bit. But I liked the overall idea.
| npinsker wrote:
| It's consistent; 'it' refers to the player and 'them' refers to
| humanity as a whole
| moomin wrote:
| It is really good, isn't it?
|
| Also, mandatory reading for context:
| https://theeggandtherock.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend
| Bengalilol wrote:
| It is really good! And thanks for the context, such an
| interesting read
| gus_massa wrote:
| Old HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33904251
| (989 points | Dec 2022 | 747 comments)
| pks016 wrote:
| Can't believe people here hated it so much! Really shows the
| side of HN
| JulianPGough wrote:
| Thanks for putting up the context. Thoughtful of you.
| gardenmud wrote:
| Oh wow. I found this by him too:
| https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-ihole-by-julian-gough-fic...
|
| Really good! Not sure how I've missed this guy. I guess I never
| did play Minecraft all the way to the end.
| Willish42 wrote:
| Thanks for linking this. It's very "discoverable" but I
| probably wouldn't have found it, or realized it existed,
| without reading this comment.
| PlunderBunny wrote:
| It reminded me (in a distant way) of the poem program "Now Press
| Return" by _Roger McGough_ , on the BBC micro Welcome disc. That
| program also started by prompting you for your name. What a funny
| coincidence.
| DC-3 wrote:
| I always thought this was pretty kitsch but it's cool that he
| made it public domain.
| seism wrote:
| I feel the <3. Thanks for sharing!
| d3w3y wrote:
| Really liked the end of the poem. Honestly could have done
| without my own name in there, since it was a little jarring, and
| dispelled the dreamlike quality of the poem.
| d3w3y wrote:
| Oh. It's Minecraft.
| tempaway4575144 wrote:
| The original (in Minecraft) used the player handle so the site
| sortof has to ask you your name to reproduce that
| octopoc wrote:
| YMMV -- I was a little creeped out by a blog that required my
| name, so I put a fake name. It was an extra level of
| indirection I could have done without.
| JulianPGough wrote:
| Oh, I wondered why some people were visiting theeggandtherock.com
| from Hacker News. (I popped over to check.) I see, it's
| downstream of this...
|
| Yes, a very nice Brazilian guy set up theendpoem.com the day
| after I put the End Poem in the public domain.
|
| There are a number of such sites now, in different languages.
| Someone recently did a Japanese translation. People have put it
| to music, made little films, used it in comics, and so on.
|
| I saw a great live/virtual reality hybrid show in the Barbican in
| London, where they'd translated it into Mandarin, and an old
| woman sang it. (The text also appeared in English, beneath the
| dome of a virtual temple.) Lovely to see it out there in the
| world. Feel free to play around with it, that's why I gave it
| away.
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| Thanks for sharing your creativity with us, Julian.
| JulianPGough wrote:
| It's an absolute pleasure! I love seeing what people do with
| my words.
| vonnik wrote:
| Highly recommend Julian's whole blog, The Egg and the Rock, which
| others have linked to on this page.
|
| It's mostly about a theory of the cosmos which I think he calls
| "evolved-physics holism". This post is a good place to start:
|
| https://theeggandtherock.com/p/in-which-i-tell-you-about-my-...
|
| It will change the way you think about the universe (and not
| every blog does that :). He is great at weaving compelling
| visions of strange phenomena occurring at vastly different scales
| from our human one, eons before the present time, in galaxies
| far, far away. Which is something science desperately needs!
| rocky_raccoon wrote:
| I'm going to be a bit vulnerable here...
|
| I really had a difficult time parsing that, and I'm still not
| quite sure I fully understand it. I found myself losing
| concentration when I knew it was going to require my full
| attention to understand it. I still don't think I understand it.
| Perhaps I'm not trained to read this style of writing, or perhaps
| my brain just isn't capable.
|
| At any rate, I'm glad other people seem to enjoy it!
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