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JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 31ST OCTOBER, 2024
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SUBJECT: An eerie something for Halloween
DATE: Thu 31 Oct 20:09:29 GMT 2024
An evocative little musing for Halloween. Inspiration taken from the likes of
Poe, Orwell, Wilde, Dante, Stoker, Brontë, Kafka, Plath, Gilman, King and many
other great writers. Enjoy, if you can…
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
THE LONG DARK
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In the depths of my mind, I find myself lost in an eternal masquerade,
dancing with the phantoms and demons of my own making. The air is heavy with
the weight of my regret, a crushing fog that suffocates all sense of hope or
redemption. My inner demons are ever-present, their ghostly forms swirling
around me like spectres in the night. A diabolical masquerade, phantoms
forever dancing with my inner demons on the edge of sanity’s precipice. The
shadows writhe and twist around me, their darkness seeping into every pore and
filling me with an unyielding sense of misery and despair.
I tread through the crumbling halls of my soul. The flickering flame of
self-doubt casts eerie silhouettes on the walls, mocking me with every step
I take. The darkness deepens, a palpable entity hovering by my side, snuffing
out all vestiges of light. The shadows writhe and twist, like living things,
as I stumble through the desolate landscape of my own mind. Every step feels
like a betrayal, each creaking floorboard a reminder that I am trapped in this
abyss, forever bound to the chains of my own regret.
In this forsaken place, time loses all meaning. The echoes of past mistakes
reverberate through the halls like dissonant notes on a dying piano. Regret
and shame cling to me like wet shrouds, heavy with the weight of what could
have been. I am tormented by the whispers of self-criticism, each voice
chipping away at my already tenuous grip on sanity.
The echoes of past mistakes reverberate through the halls, more discordant
notes as yet unheard. The whispers of self-criticism grow louder, chipping
away at what little remains of my sanity. I am tormented by the spectre of
failure, each voice a tiny, incessant drumbeat that pounds against the walls
of my soul.
Then the silence; it is a tangible thing, a living entity that wraps itself
around me like a cold, uncaring mistress. Or perhaps it is something more
sinister — a seductive whisper that promises to consume me whole, to swallow
me up in its depths and leave nothing but darkness and despair in its wake.
It presses against me, crushing me in its unyielding grasp. I feel the walls
closing in, their stillness oppressive, their darkness engulfing.
I strain to find an exit, to escape this labyrinth of my own making. But there
is no map, no compass to guide me through the twisting passages of my mind. No
one knows these hidden recesses, and even if they did, I fear they would not
know how to lead me out.
Yet, amidst this crushing despair, a spark flickers within me — a tiny,
tenacious flame that refuses to be extinguished. It ignites a promise of
growth, of strength in vulnerability, of finding a way through the darkness to
a brighter dawn. This fragile hope fuels my resolve, urging me onward despite
the terror that grips my soul.
The demons will never truly leave me be; they will continue to haunt me, their
whispers growing louder with each passing moment. And even if I manage to
break free from this prison of self-imposed confinement, I fear that I will
emerge scarred and changed, forever haunted by the ghosts of my own making.
And so, I press on, driven by a maddening curiosity about the depths of my
own despair. For in the darkness, I have found a strange, perverse solace — a
sense that even in the most desolate corners of my soul, there is still a
glimmer of light to be found, waiting to guide me through the abyss towards…
what? Redemption? Salvation? Or merely a cruel trick of light playing tricks
on my mind?
I have a perverse, twisted fascination with the abyss; an insolent, deviant
delight in the madness it conjures. I am becoming the monster within my mind,
and while it may seem tempting to flee or fight — there is no point. I’ve
traded sanity for this horrifying, terrifying, beautiful truth: I am lost,
forever trapped in this labyrinthine hell. I am a prisoner of my own mind; the
bars are forged from the agony I have wrought upon myself. It has become my
reality. The demons close in around me, their whispers growing louder with
each passing moment. And I am forced to confront a terrible truth: I am mine
own worst enemy.
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Diddymus, with AI collaborators[1]: Gemma, Phi, Llama, Qwen
[1] AI Enhancements and suggestions provided by:
Ollama inference engine, Ollama, v0.3.14, https://ollama.com/
Gemma LLM, Google, v2.0; 2.6B Q4_0, https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2:3b
Phi LLM, Microsoft, v3.5; 3.8B Q4_0, https://ollama.com/library/gemma2:2b
Llama LLM, Meta, v3.2; 3.2B Q4_K_M, https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2:3b
Qwen LLM, Alibaba, v2.5; 7.6B Q4_K_M, https://ollama.com/library/qwen2.5:7b
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