The cubicle

[Kyriakos]

I am writing a new story. It is about the exploration of a large building, by someone who apparently entered it through a strange cubicle in one of its rooms.
The cubicle has partly collapsed and isnt working, and the narrator has been visiting six other floors of the seemingly endless building.
I think it may be a good story
Like some other of my own, it has a few parallels to delphine's classic "another world" game; though in my case the allegory is about introversion.

- does it sound interesting?

 

[Kyriakos]

Does the person know where he came from. I think it would be good if he was trying to figure out who he was and how he got there.

There is only a theory. The cubicle possibly was his previous world, acting as a matrix-type phenomenon.
It can't be proven, cause it doesnt work anymore.

 

[Kyriakos]

We have just been transported into a parallel universe

Welcome to the twilight zone

 

[Gori the Grey]

If I were to do my own version of a story based on this premise, I'd have it gradually dawn on him that there is nothing to life but exploring the building. He misinterpreted what he took to be a "cubicle"; he didn't come from somewhere; he's not trying to get somewhere. Life is exploring this building. I'd have described the six floors in elaborate detail, each of them very beautiful and interesting in its own right. But him looking past all the beauty because he thought they all represented some puzzle he was supposed to solve. Now he's disappointed that he has passed all those beautiful floors without appreciating them because he was so sure there was something else he was supposed to be looking for.

Little bit Kafka, little bit James' Beast in the Jungle.

 

[Kyriakos]

The beast in the jungle is an excellent story, but the ending page is rather in haste..

Re the building: though the reader can see it as they like, and the story allows for other interpretation, for me it is vast and represents the mental world. The cubicle is where senses lock you into feeling you move freely in a world, but is only the tip of the iceberg.
That said... Progress in the building is virtually impossible. Most doors are locked. Most areas reveal no evident use. Some items of note were found, but later caused a scare.

 

[Gori the Grey]

The beast in the jungle is an excellent story,

You may recall who it was that recommended it to you.

 

[Kyriakos]

You may recall who it was that recommended it to you.

One does not get to be known as ''gori the grey' just by doing nothing; first off he has to be called gori. Then he has to become grey.