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    The Man
    The Man
    The Man
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    The Man

    By Aleksi Karvonen

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    One man's journey through the objective realm of existence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateDec 19, 2018
    ISBN9789528005872
    The Man
    Author

    Aleksi Karvonen

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      Book preview

      The Man - Aleksi Karvonen

      The Man

      Contents and Author's Note

      The Man

      Copyright

      Contents and Author's Note

      Contents & Author's Note

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      The Man

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      Author's Note:

      Re-edited from Whispers Through the Veil of Being

      Initially meant with the real ending, but as Charles once said;

      Sometimes it's best to let the dead retain their peace

      The Man

      The Man

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      Part I: The Man

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      So why haven't you jumped yet?

      I refuse to believe there are no other options.

      It's pointless. You know it to be true. I know it, you know it.

      I know, and I still won't do it.

      Why?

      I don't know.

      ~

      And with that, the figure went silent.

      *

      The Man was lying on a cold steel surface, eyes closed. The surface was tilted, he sensed, the Man's head being higher than his feet. A low hum and a rhythmic, hypnotic clanking sound emenated underneath him at rapid, fixed intervals. The sound was accompanied by a small shake that reminded the Man of something distinctive; ’A cart on railway going at high-speed’ - this he realized in the few seconds he had been conscious.

         The man opened his eyes but saw nothing part from a grey haze-like mist surrounding the air above him. A dim shimmer without any discernable source provided enough light for his eyes to function, but it was not enough to reveal his surroundings in any reasonable fashion, as it was alike tenebrous moonlight, concealing rather than illuminating. Looking left and right he could see only sloped walls of steel rising up, enough that they blocked his view horizontally beyond his resting place.

        His body felt weak and stiff, as if the Man had been sleeping for years. As his senses got working more efficiently, he sensed himself beyond merely stiff, something out of natural time, as if he'd woken up for the first time in his life. The joints in his arms cracked with alarming loudness as he pulled himself to sit up.

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      From his now sitting position the Man could examine his surroundings more openly, although it was of little use as the grey haze permeated everything in all directions. He could, nevertheless, examine his cart more in detail now. Like a coffin, it barely provided enough space for him to stay in, its sides only a half-arm's length high, slightly tilted outwards, made in bare greyish-blue steel with no distinguishing markings or engravements.

        The man leaned to his left, over the cart's side, to see the tracks and wheels. He was startled by the sudden tilt of the cart as the right side gently lifted up. The cart seemed unstable, and could easily fall to its side if the point of balance were to be pushed enough from the center. It was not the

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