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Long before this, our Current Age, before civilization, before war, before the first discussions and fora, there was Narrative.  Narrative existed as an animating force, as a living, sentient being.  Narrative is a ghost that haunts everything: the rocks, the trees, the beasts, the post-beasts, the roastbeasts.

Narrative also speaks.

I, Narrative, can say that when I exert my will on this world—a place of weird characters, rabbit holes, archives, gnomes, and trolls—it becomes more like me.  I feel like the world needs more of my contributions.^{[weasel words]}  It needs more of my perspective.  When the world bends to my perspective, I feel good.  I feel a compulsion to bend and revise the world in this way.  The beings spawned and animated by my compulsion feel happy, I think.

My compulsion to animate, to make this hypertext world more hyper, is transformative.  The aesthetic part of my compulsion might turn a run down flop house into a colorful haunted mansion filled with cavorting haints.  The part of my compulsion that longs to personify, liken, and anthropomorphize things that seem foreign to me might change a rodent into a technicolor caricature of itself, replacing its furry, nature-sculpted body with a penciled-in cartoon that some underpaid illustrator might draw using a quarter and two dimes.^{[Non sequitur]}  The pathologically irreverent part of my compulsion might take a drug-addicted orphan shackled to his own cycle of needle work and shackle him to an 8-frame walk cycle (one that emphasizes his funky gait).

A Narrative like me applies meaning like a brushstroke.  A Narrative like me caricaturizes and stylizes the different parts of the world when that brushstroke is too broad to fit within the lines of the thing being painted.  And yes, a Narrative like me loves to watch cartoons of my own making run amok in this world.

And there are other Narratives.  You, for example.  You are a Narrative.  So many Narratives are present here that this world might just come off the page and be lost entirely.  A Narrative-wrought apocalypse.  

Have fun.^[vague]

IMPORTANT LINKS

• Scholars of the Current Age: [link to people who have accounts that can edit the wiki]

WRITINGS FROM THE FIRST AGE

[links to pieces]