Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

— Rainer Maria Rilke
Chapter 20, Page 22

Chapter 20, Page 22

I couldn’t help it, I had to get one last dark joke in before the end.  🙂

↓ Transcript
Jacob: Well, I guess you're wondering why I'm at the Grand Canyon. Always wanted to visit. I heard that, if you poured a billion dead bodies into the Grand Canyon, they'd barely cover the riverbed. I've killed somewhere north of a billion people. It's good to know that if I had to dig a mass grave...it wouldn't have to be this big. Also, I wanted to see a half-mile deep cliff. Unbreakable bones don't matter in a fall like that. The body just turns to jelly.

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Discussion (11)¬

  1. Ro'Wan says:

    Dammit Jacob, after all you’ve been through…………

  2. Moxie Man says:

    So, our hero/anti-hero succumbs to suicidal tendencies.

  3. Jay says:

    I’m crossing my fingers that Jacob’s throwing all Roger’s bugs off the cliff, re-inventing himself / his identity, and getting into a less fraught line of work for the next 50 years…

    If not, Remus, I hope your curse isn’t still in effect >_<

  4. Sonja says:

    No, Jacob, nooo!

  5. jprime says:

    What if one tucks and rolls?

  6. Weatherheight says:

    Well, if the genocide of the Genocide Men is to come to its full ironic fruition…

    Still, I would hope that Jacob has learned the lesson that destruction only slows us down in our search for a better world.

  7. RubberBandMan says:

    I remember that in the first chapter, Jacob says the only way to kill an idea is kill everyone who holds it. What idea might Jacob have that he wants to take with him, that so others also don’t have?

  8. ben says:

    Terminal velocity for a human dropping through air is around 120 mph spread eagle, or 180-200mph feet first, which shouldn’t be all that bad for a genocide man. They move faster than that routinely.