I Just Saw This Photo on Tumblr and Realized It Reminds Me of What the Perfect Novel Would "Look Like"

This looks like the perfect novel to me.

It was posted by Crippled-Inside on Tumblr.

I can't really verbalize why I think this is the perfect novel.

I can partially.

It's the idea of the flash of radiance that's really reflecting off a monochrome of existence.

The monochrome of existence is something that's like a color that is homogenous but that doesn't exist.

An abstract idea of a color that you imagine you visualize but you can't really be visualizing it because it doesn't really exist.

The way Tumblr lied yesterday and said "The human brain does not have the ability to imagine a single face. Every person that you see in dreams that you do not recognize, you have seen at one time in your life. Even if only for a moment in a supermarket or on the street."

That is beautifully untrue.

The photograph does have characters and plot but these are pushed off to one side.

Or pushed upwards, which is really downwards, because the picture might have inverted the gravity.

This reminds us that gravity really doesn't work in only one direction.

Small objects attract larger objects just as larger objects attract smaller objects.

Larger objects seem to win in the war of gravity but the smaller object has still exerted its pull.

And ultimately as the smaller object comes to rest upon the larger object's body, the gravity of the smaller object has also been satisfied.

That the larger object imagines itself as separate from the smaller object is only a funny part of the drama that the novel has possibly managed to get correct.

If the novel is smart enough, it resembles this photograph.