This is beautiful. A wonderful meditation on what it really means to live forever...and I like your take on how Jack became the Face of Boe. I especially love the idea of the litany, and how eventually all of his followers remember for him. Love love love.
Also, this:
(As a side note, the bacteria in his vomit found a happy home in the warm, amino-acid-rich slime that covered the planet. In the fullness of time, their descendants evolved, and grew into a complex, peaceful civilization, albeit one in which copulation held the same place that a handshake does in human rituals. So it goes.)
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Date: 2009-08-03 08:56 pm (UTC)Also, this:
(As a side note, the bacteria in his vomit found a happy home in the warm, amino-acid-rich slime that covered the planet. In the fullness of time, their descendants evolved, and grew into a complex, peaceful civilization, albeit one in which copulation held the same place that a handshake does in human rituals. So it goes.)
made me lol.
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