Reading Notes: The Nether World

In The Nether World from The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921), the monkey king visits the land of the dead in a dream. The most important part of the story is when he strikes out the whole ape family from the book of life. It causes uproar from everyone in the Nether World. The monkey king just caused the apes to have eternal life. I could change the plot to a more futuristic timeline and have an AI transfer the consciousness of the human mind to a computer to cause them to live forever.

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