The Snow Queen (Project "Eternity")
Kay was not a wicked boy. He was a brilliant mathematician whose consciousness was ahead of its time. Gerda was his wife—a simple, "warm," down-to-earth woman for whom happiness was measured by Sunday dinners and ensuring "everything was just like other people have it." The Snow Queen in this story is not a woman. She is a metaphor for Absolute Reason . It is a state of pure logic, devoid of emotional noise. ACT I. THE SHARD (EPIPHANY) That day, it wasn't a shard of a troll's mirror that hit Kay in the eye. It was a micro-stroke or a sudden chemical glitch that caused a rare anomaly of perception—a complete loss of emotional empathy . For Kay, the world instantly ceased to be colorful and noisy. It became crystal clear. He looked at the roses Gerda loved so much, and instead of their beauty, he saw decaying organics, the process of rot, and a senseless waste of resources on reproduction. Kay looked at Gerda and instead of love, he saw bioch...