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The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He is contemplating the ridiculousness of his own life, and his recent realization that nothing matters to him any more. It is this revelation that leads him to the idea of suicide. He reveals that, some months before, he had bought a revolver with the intent of shooting himself in the head.Despite a dismal night, the narrator looks up to the sky and views a solitary star. Shortly after seeing the star, a little girl comes running towards him. The narrator surmises that something is wrong with the girl's mother. He shakes the girl away and continues on to his apartment.Once in his apartment, he sinks into a chair and places the gun on a table next to him. He hesitates to shoot himself because of a nagging feeling of guilt that has plagued him ever since he shunned the girl. The narrator grapples with internal questions for a few hours before falling asleep in the chair.He descends into a vivid dream. In the dream, he shoots himself in the heart. He dies but is still aware of his surroundings. He gathers that there is a funeral and that it is he who is being buried. After an indeterminate amount of time in his cold grave, water begins to drip down onto his eyelids. The narrator begs for forgiveness. His grave is suddenly opened by an unknown and shadowy figure. This figure pulls the narrator up from his grave, and the two soar through the sky and into space. After flying through space for a long time, the narrator is deposited on a planet, one much like Earth, but not the Earth that he left through suicide.The narrator is then placed on what appears to be an idyllic Greek island, identified as the Earth before the Fall. Soon the inhabitants of the island find him: they are happy, blissful, sinless people. The narrator lives in this utopia for many years, all the while amazed at the goodness around him.One day the narrator accidentally teaches the inhabitants how to lie. This begins the corruption of the utopia. The lies engender pride, and pride engenders a deluge of other sins. Soon the first murder occurs. Factions are made, wars are waged. Science supplants feeling, and the members of the former utopia become incapable of remembering their former happiness. The narrator pleads with the people to return to their former state, or at least to kill him for his role in their Fall, but they will not allow it.The narrator then awakens. He is a changed man, thoroughly thankful for life and convinced of man's basic goodness and potential for limitless love. He dedicates his life to teaching the promise of a Golden Era, a time on Earth where everyone loves his brother as he loves himself.At the conclusion of the story, the narrator states that he has found the little girl, and that he will continue moving towards his goal.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798730402928
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8730402921
  • Publisher Date: 30 Mar 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 50 gr

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