{"id":1232,"date":"2009-06-22T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T16:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephyrusanemoi.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/kill-your-television\/"},"modified":"2020-02-06T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T02:30:10","slug":"kill-your-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/kill-your-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Your Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: <\/strong>I did not write this, this was taken from the Marathon series of video games.<\/p>\n

i have been roland, beowulf, achilles, gilgamesh; i have been called a
\nhundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes
\ndim and cold. i am a hero.<\/p>\n

she has been nameless since our birth; a constant adversary, caring for
\nnothing but my ruin, a sword drenched in my blood; forever my greatest
\nand only love. she is the dark one; the enemy and lover without whom
\nmy very existence would be pathetic and vulgar. her eyes steam and boil
\nin the night (she is fantastically beautiful yet i cannot stand the sight
\nof her). our relationship is complex and perhaps eternal.<\/p>\n

we met once in the garden, at the beginning of the world and unaware of
\nour twin destinies (not the garden of Genesis, but another; forgotten,
\nuntended and now choked with weeds, unvisited except for ourselves).
\nwe matched stares across a dry fountain, and i recall her smiling at me
\nbefore she devoured the lawn and trees with a translucent blue flame and
\ntore flagstones from the path and hurled them into the sky screaming my
\nsins.<\/p>\n

our reunions there are epic battles fought without quarter, often in
\nthe dark as the moon is seldom visible and the sun never. i powder a
\ngranite monument in a soundless flash, showering the grass with molten
\ndrops of its gold inlay, sending smoking chips of stone skipping into
\nthe fog. she splinters an ancient oak with a force that takes my
\nbreath and hurls me to the ground. she leaves and i lie in the slow
\nrain of burning slivers of wood, staring at the low, dark clouds,
\ncraving our next meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: I did not write this, this was taken from the Marathon series of video games. i have been roland, beowulf, achilles, gilgamesh; i have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. i am a hero. she has been nameless since our birth; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[135,136],"tags":[24,39,47,50,66,85],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-video-games","tag-bungie","tag-durandal","tag-gaming","tag-halo","tag-marathon","tag-prose","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111,"url":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/from-94-to-infinity-before-halo\/","url_meta":{"origin":1232,"position":0},"title":"From ’94 to Infinity: Before Halo","author":"Jared Cash","date":"October 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I absolutely loved this article! 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