The Silent Meow (rough draft)

Prologue

     There was something and there was nothing, mostly so as to give definition to one another, since if everything were something it would be nothing of note and if everything were nothing that would certainly be something.

     The problem was that something "became" aware of itself while nothing remained unaware of not having a self.  This awareness was "followed" by curiosity, "then" loneliness, and "finally" boredom.

     (It must be noted at this point that because time had yet to become a phenomenon all words that seem to reference a progression of said are here in quotes in hopes of confusing things as much as they truly were confused.)

     Since this state of affairs was seemingly permanent, having always been and therefore was always to be, and since something could not rid itself of its cursed awareness, it "began" to strive for nothingness, which takes one back to the first statement above indicating its impossibility.  Yet the efforts "continued" as something found itself able to, through a focus of awareness, cause part of itself to dissipate to near nothingness with the amount of seeming nothingness determined by the quantity of effort used to fling the something bits further and further apart, leading to a better simulation of the intended result.  The added bonus was that it seemed that some of the awareness went as well.

     "Eventually" the skills had been honed and the inevitable occurred as something did its best to become nothing by scattering as much of itself as far as it could, hoping to not only be nothing but also to forget that it had ever been otherwise.

                                          boom