Lostaudio Story
Journal entries were recovered from Triton, years after the marooned astronaut’s disappearance. The exploration team found journals, carvings, photographs, and a few songs. Lostaudio is the collection of songs and writings they found.
PART I | Ascension
On a Sunday, she appeared with pink-blue hair and dark eyes. The astronaut realized he did not need to speak; that she read his thoughts. Emotionless. No words were needed. No explanations. Things were implied, understood. He wondered if all of it was just in his mind.
With his head in the clouds, he was always a swervewalker. The stars and emptiness of space consumed him. Although cold and indifferent, watching stars was his home. He thought about Zarathustra. He too did not have the mouth for their ears.
The astronaut wondered whether he had already disintegrated into space. He relied on the basic proof that he still existed – the act of thinking. Cogito ergo sum. Doubt persisted.
The astronaut remained enthralled by phenomenology and tried to steer away from metaphysical thinking. Not as empty theorizing but to ground action in life without the burden of inherited values. He realized that, in the end, it was still all metaphysics.
PART II | Desolation
The astronaut did not give advice, but to those with whom he was the closest, he simply said to say what you mean and mean what you say. He wanted those left behind to not think twice, to forge ahead and carve their own path.
Ontology and space and time are to be considered but always as a force for action. The astronaut spent a lifetime thinking about veritas and of truth and being.
The astronaut reflected on the ultimate potentiality of the human being and how obsolescence was the essence of being human, the most fundamental element of existence. He tried to understand the interplay between ex nihilo nihil fit and how something comes to be from an encounter with nothingness.
The astronaut thought and wrote about time and the ephemeral essence of life and existence. Tempus semper vincit, he wrote.
PART III | Integration
Towards what appears to have been the end, the astronaut kept writing about the concept of hope, stars, and a giant molecular cloud he befriended. Years before the science of his time understood, he came to realize the giant molecular cloud was alive.
The astronaut discovered a facet of existence that was beyond the human experience of being and time and space. He discovered it before the scientists and thinkers he had left behind long ago came to understand such phenomena.
The astronaut never got to see the new school philosopher leaders come to power after theologians and scientists alike were discredited by their own discoveries and meditations; something he thought about during his lifetime.
In the end, the philosopher leaders concluded that his essence was transferred and integrated into the giant molecular cloud upon his human death. The exploration team found no other signs of the astronaut.
The astronaut’s ultimate whereabouts remain unexplained.