Chapter 51: You Don't Understand
Meng Lang patted his pounding heart.
"With the way things are going," he murmured to himself, "am I supposed to be shoulder to shoulder with God now?"
Although it sounded mysterious, when he thought about it carefully, to the people in the world of the book, wasn't he some sort of God in a sense?
With a single thought from me, the world would also move.
Isn't the "me" in the book the "proxy" for myself in the "human world"?
Meng Lang began to carefully search his mind for knowledge about religion and myth, suddenly realizing that other world mythologies seemed to have some ring of truth to them as well.
For example, in Hinduism, there is the myth of Brahma's dream.
It posits that the universe is but a dream of Brahma, and we are living in his dream. Should he turn over and wake up, we would fall from the dream like leaves, plummeting into utter nothingness.
Buddhism also has the notion that "Trouble is enlightenment, and reincarnation is Nirvana".