Responding to Calvin's Story

At first I wasn’t sure on how I should start this entry, as so much questions and ideas based on the text came to mind. Calvin’s story it’s…really confusing, yet exclusive, and similar to Ishmael, as it makes you think a lot.

Made me think of such things as are Qfwfq and (k)yK humans?


They aren’t exactly humans, nor do they belong to any specie living on this Earth. They are even vaguely alive, as they were…just there staring at creation itself, and gambling about what was supposed to happen.

If there was nothing to know, nothing to learn from or not anything for there to be that might have made Qfwfq think, then why did he know all that? How was he able to predict everything and mention random facts about future—future in their case—such as Mesopotamia vs. Aryans, and who shall wins from Arsenal and Real Madrid?

This story includes many of the topics we have until now learned in class. For a start, it talks about creation, like if it were just any other myth, explaining its own beliefs, on where we come from, on how and when was the world created. I wondered as well, what type of knowledge wasQfwfq using, when he talked and gambled about the future.

In simulation to Gilgamesh, Qfwfq and (k)yK could be said to be the Gilgamesh and the Enkidu of the story. Though they seemed to have known each other forever (unlike the characters in the epic), they act as true companions, and they are okay with each other’s company. Both pairs of buddies have some dilemma they shall study and face, in Gilgamesh and Enkidu’s case, to exceed in whichever threatening adventure they embark. The dilemma Qfwfq and (k)yK face is practically the creation of the world, of everything, to their eyes.

Neither of the four had an idea of how much effect their stories have for the future, for the civilization today. What might have Qfwfq thought if he were to know all of his bets we know today by fact, what might have Gilgamesh thought if today his story is the first written piece in the world…