The Void Of Daniel

Posted on 20th August 2009 by Graham

‘The Void Of Daniel’ is a short novel that I’ve been working on intermittently for sometime.  The storyline of which goes thus:

A young man named Daniel meets a metaphysical construct of his higher conscious self (you know, the usual) of the name Defoe.  Defoe leads him into something simply called ‘The Void’ , the infinite forever.  He traverses eternity experiencing all manner of oddity.  Eventually he finds himself pulled violently between realities of love and fear, both vie for his latent powers.  Will he use them for good or evil?  If he sides with love then humanity will evolve into cosmical greatness, if evil, humanity shall suffer, equally greatly.

Here’s a very short excerpt to whet literary appetites:

“He stopped and noticed the rather beautiful dichotomy of the trees.  The contrast between the subtle ochre and deep rich green.  The air was sweet, the sun was gorgeous warmth, the sky was depthless blue.  A day to be glad of breathing, of being alive and well amidst the limitless wonder.

Safe from all that’s perpetually plaintive and mundane, there exists a beautiful vein of the quixotic; wondrous, joyous quixoticism.  Mmm, gorgeous, fantastical quixoticism for potential wonder to shine through the incessant solidity of brain exploding dullness and futility.

Terminate all soliloquy and narration thus far, for the necessary revelation and interjecting of the following:

From dull, seeming inconsequence, Daniel, the subject of the soliloquy and narration thus far, has a revelation, a transformation.  From his directionless existence of misanthropy, resentment and futility, his life now transforms more completely, more utterly absurdly epically, than the moderately intelligent, and creative mind of young Daniel could ever have conceived, in a month of infinite Sundays.”

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