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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind
is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear
is fear of the unknown.
What would happen if the Nebuchadnezzar had been destroyed after the crew red-pilled Neo, but before his body had been purged from the harvesting facility? He would be stuck between the post-simulation and pre-reality states; no longer Thomas, not yet Neo. Imagine waking up as a hairless, slug-like creature in an embryonic pod; alert but unbirthed. Neo can’t flush himself into the new world, or return to the world he left. He can’t even watch the in-flight movie or ask the stewardess for a pillow and a bankie, all he can do is lie there with nothing to distract or amuse him until the end of time, or until the sun goes supernova in fifty million years. Either way, quite a while.
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"Who knows the end? What has risen
may sink, and what has sunk may rise."
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer best known for his influential works of horror fiction, particularly in the subgenre now known as cosmic horror. His stories often explore themes of forbidden knowledge, ancient extraterrestrial beings, and humanity’s insignificance in the universe.
