Grendel's Watch

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated tale of undersea scientist's contact with an intelligent nihilist being (Grendel) offering communications of race-jotting.

Grendel (John Gardner) characterization adaptation. Here comes '25. Thanks for reading (and enjoy!),

DISCLAIMER: This work of creative fiction and mythology adaptation offers no specific ties to the referenced work of inspiration and is cast as purely a 'personal' expression for social arts (for 'open' criticism/translations).

----

====

I was so interested in civilization IQ reflections for my undersea study of potential organic life understanding and refreshed on my college readings of the logic of consciousness and language to feel simply speedy in human race intuitions of organic/intelligence existence itself. I went to a (Target) department store to feel like I was one of my Selfie-age consumer citizens of the West (American Homeland) immersed in the capitalism quills of lifestyle-communications too (ha).

I was stationed with an excellent deep-sea crew off the coast of California and began my rich 'examination' of organic life and intelligence/evolution hypotheses and offered special readings of unknowns and categories of sea living in a Blue Planet as of yet unversed in the potentially infinite richness of evolution/life near the ocean abyss. I continued to communicate/confer with our government-sponsors and science company heads when our underwater 'castle' made close-contact with a deep-sea dwelling giant undersea race of very intelligent beings, led by a captain-monarch being named Grendel. Follow along (Facebook-like).

GRENDEL: I consider myself a pensive messenger of the nihilism of beings.

ME: Well, I'm versed in thoughts about the logic structure of consciousness!

GRENDEL: Well, me thinks you make light of the mysterious quality of me.

ME: Your race of giant snake-like intelligent underwater specters is qualia!

GRENDEL: What's your understanding of the borders of species contact now?

ME: I'm versed in communication science...the Liar-paradox, Grendel (sure).

GRENDEL: What's this Liar-paradox, Earth science man (eh)?

ME: The Liar-paradox denotes self-contradiction in language intentionality.

GRENDEL: Explain, Earth science man (hmmm).

ME: For example, "Every statement is incomplete" can't be informative, right?

GRENDEL: Aha, since the statement about information-void is a statement.

ME: So, and therefore, not every statement can be incomplete, by definition!

GRENDEL: Aha, sure, at least one statement is informative and complete.

ME: The Liar-paradox is used to derive truth-values for communications.

GRENDEL: I.e., "At least one statement in the universe is complete."

ME: Even if that one statement is that one statement itself (see?).

GRENDEL: So, you invoke this communications structuralism for contracts?

ME: Why not invoke the Liar-paradox to induce images for sovereignty?

GRENDEL: Or volition itself?

ME: Think it, Grendel..."Every statement is incomplete" is false!

GRENDEL: So, by such communication borders, we derive labor trusts.

ME: A good way to start a race-contact language note for goals/exchange.

GRENDEL: You hail from a capitalism society (America) of contract-colors.

ME: Sure, and we Americans cheer Super Bowl TV-revenue culture shoes!

GRENDEL: Seems we conferred about contact between idealists and pirates.

ME: Farewell (Selfie-like).

GRENDEL: Good.

When I returned to above-water civilization, I furiously began to take consumerism ideology and capitalism contract structure notes for my conference with that giant underwater nihilist 'being' (Grendel) who considered my representation of communication structure and Liar-paradox logistics for trust-intelligence and labor-qualifications a nice symbol of potential race-contact inferences of shared/competitive profit and production relevant for coexistence justified margins. I wonder if Grendel is (now!) down there (still) in the deep-ocean, watching Super Bowl TV ads on YouTube (somehow).