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A version of Pinocchio told sys-side in reverse: someone unhappy with humanity endeavoring to lose it, goes through all the plot-beats in reverse order.
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Question: how heavy-handed should it be? Should it be very little? Someone naming themselves Occhioni P.? Trying to turn themselves into a literal puppet? Designing sims to include the big fish? Finding their Geppetto (G from Oteppe, Belgium) who unmakes them, and then a blue fairy, a sympathetic systech kicks them into quitting? Or they turn into a tree? Told as a fairy tale? Quote the first lines of the original?
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> Once upon a time there was—
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> “A king?” my little readers will immediately say.
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> No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not fine wood, but a simple piece of wood from the wood yard,—the kind we put in the stoves and fireplaces so as to make a fire and heat the rooms.
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More at https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-pinocchio-is-a-story-about-art-and-god
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Reverse order:
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* [ ] [001](001) Living forever waiting for time to come/as a real person
* [ ] [002](002) Saving Geppetto
* [ ] [003](003) Swallowed by the big fish
* [ ] [004](004) Pleasure Island
* [ ] [005](005) Puppet show to prove no strings/earn money for Geppetto
* [ ] [006](006) Honest John and Gideon the cat
* [ ] [007](007) Comes to life after a wish
* [ ] [008](008) Carved from wood