: Re: Describing slices of a tedious eternity without becoming tedious This is a story of a guy in the waiting room for the afterlife. Because this guy was a horrible specimen of humanity in his

The Jaunt by Stephen King is one example that springs to mind. This story showed the effects of each 'jaunt' through eternity rather than describe the experience itself. This could be one way you could deal with it.

Another approach is to go for the Groundhog Day model. In this movie, the same thing is happening day after day but rather than show what is happening during the whole period, selected events are chosen for display. In this way you can show how the character changes/reforms between cycles (if that's what you're intending).

If you want a mechanism to deal with the tedium, then maybe concentrate on what is happening in the waiting room instead of in the slice of eternity. Show the clerk juicily gossiping, occasionally working and, now and then, opening a window (on the PC?) to check on the character's progress then reporting to someone else, as in "He's been there 350 years now and ... yeah, he just peed himself."

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