“I’ve never seen such a beautiful place.”
“It takes a long time, manipulation and mean strategy to build illusions.”
“Why illusions? You are free to step into the lights and dance. Let me film your cheer…”
I said a silent prayer to preserve my daughter’s smile.
“There is so much which has not been filmed. Corona Virus was born here…”
“Come on, Dad, not again…. the same story of fear, destruction and death. Think about the reconstruction thereafter.”
“You dance, while I look for historical evidence. The empire that crumbled before reconstruction had a lot to conceal from the world.”
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Great topical tale.
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Thank you, Anagha!
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Reconstruction, eh? Well then … 😉
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It does happen 😊
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Indeed it can, and it had! 🙂
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Great to hear the optimism about re-construction. Isn’t the whole world maya anyway?
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AR and VR are making it more so 😊
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I honestly didn’t even see what the prompt was but I love the story regardless. Isn’t that the way it might be someday? Beauty will only be the illusion?
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I came across a novel, “Chosen Spirits” by Samit Sarkar. He describes a millenial’s future life and usage of terms Reality Controllers and Reality Deniers had me in loops for a while.
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That was like the time I had my mind on the book 1984. I don’t think I ended up reading the whole thing, as I had read it in high school, but I thought it would be neat to see what was written back then and see how true it was.
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I think we have surpassed Orwellian predictions. The surveillance is a lot more than what he could imagine.
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Excellent take on the prompt. I like the way you simultaneously have the family story, with the exchanges between father and daughter, and the bigger story of how a nation may have given birth to the terrible losses of the coronavirus. You’ve been ambitious and succeeded!
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Thank you so much, Penny!
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You. mean life will go on after COVID-19?! 🙂
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Life did go on after the influenza and plague 🙂
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Yes. After many plagues, actually, and illnesses such as tuberculosis, polio, typhus, etc. I think part of the reason people in in such a panic this time is because the media are all telling us that the sky is falling!
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Economies are falling.
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Yes, and they will continue to do so as long as people are not allowed to go back to work. It’s like a snake eating its own tail.
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Ah, those conspiracy theories! Fascinating take on the photo prompt. 🙂
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Thank you, Susan!
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Interesting take! We’ll never know, and it really doesn’t matter now anyway.
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You are right. It really does not matter, unless biological warfare can be stopped in future. Do you see the danger of another detente? It will endanger your own population before it is unleashed on others.
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The virus has swept an awful lot of things away with it, some that may never be revisited, others that will resurface.
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Never has the world been so united in cluelessness…. All experts who predicted stuff are silent.
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It has to be said that some countries have handled it really well, but the majority it is true, have been left floundering.
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Conspiracy theories abound.
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And will continue to inspire fiction and art.,.
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Wish we could get the evidence like this! A lot remains hidden.
Creative take!
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Thank you, Anita!
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