Exhalation Stories

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

The first story is excellent. It concerns a method for consistent time travel and unlike other stories it doesn't concern itself with modifying the past but simply observing the past. The arab tradition of telling stories similar styles make the stories feel natural in their enviornement. Though fate constrains the past andd future, the story attempts to prove that the most important is understanding and acceptance of one's fate. Fuwaad ibn abbas the protagonist goes into the past but arrives too late to make any amends but learns that his wife forgave and loved him. The same priciple could be applied to the present. The Buddha in the Sallatha Sutra asserts a similar premise. They are, he says, struck as if “with an arrow and, right afterward… with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows.” First comes the pain itself. Then comes everything they add to it: sorrow, lament, resistance, the inner shout of this should not be happening. If one could understand and accept their fate in the present and their past, suffering could radically decrease.

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