1. Cogito Ergo Sum.
These are the words of the philosopher Rene Descartes, a man from the ancient world of mankind, just at the dawn of the technology that would go on to annihilate the world. The past is no longer existent in the world of ruins. These are but words preserved in the vaults filled floor to ceiling with the ancient words of Mankind, words no one reads anymore.
I am but no one in this world that has ceased to possess meaning.
In the dim light filtering through the ventilator high above my head, in the domed ceiling of a vault so large I could not see its end,
I had touched those pages that broke into pieces under my gloved fingers. The solidness of books was surprisingly reassuring, even as they crumbled and tore under my lightest touch.
Books, volumes of information made of paper bound together; paper, a fragile and wasteful form of information storage employed by the ancient mankind. The new entourage assigned to me days ago supplied the piece of explanation with cold ease.
I had returned to the same vault years later, and memories of the afternoon rushed upon me when I happened upon the same spot. It was the same spot for there beside the foot of a tall shelf, a pile of parchment dust marked the book that gave its life to be read.
The title read, Meditation, I could still recall.
I promised Lima-hime I'll write an Ergo Proxy fic sooner or later. So here it is.
Yes it is an Ergo Proxy fic, don't u see the 'Cogito Ergo Sum'[laughs
Yes that was an intended joke.
It'll look more like an Ergo Proxy fic once I get into the main events of the anime series.
For those who would like some footnotes/explainations..
1. Cogito Ergo Sum is a reference used in Ergo Proxy, it's first coined by French philosopher Rene Descartes. Meditation was the book Descartes wrote. It's pretty easy in terms of language, in comparison to some of the brain-twister other philosophers wrote... so if you're interested, you can go pick it up.
2. Descartes was putting to doubt everything he's not 100 certain of. A good example is that you're not certain that your eyes aren't deceiving you. To push that to the extreme, think of Matrix. If you dig down to the end of everything, the only thing [according to Descartes you can be 100 certain of is that you [your mind, rather exists, because the fact that you're thinking means thoughts exist, and thoughts needs thinkers[lota people don't agree with this though, and therefore you exist [lota people think it's too big a leap.
PS: Ergo proxy is awesome, Daedalus is MOE [don't flame, it's a matter of personal taste.