"On What Is True," part 7

It is not yet false that the man had jumped on a block. Three witnesses corroborate this account, with very little discrepancy between them: The man landed, then fell to the ground below him. He jumped again to the block, but forces pulled him back down. No matter how hard he tried, he could not stay on the block above. But neither the man nor the witnesses believe this to be true. They only know that this was the lie that made all the other stories become true.

"On What Is True," part 6

Yes, the man jumped on a block and wrote his book, "On the True, the False, and What is Really the Case." He wrote it with his left hand, thinking it had something unexpected to say. He had no way to know for sure, so he trusted its originality. The final sentence it wrote was, "To be broken, to be humble, to kill, to die, all these we rejoice in. But to be the case is the saddest, saddest...." This all can be verified.

"On What Is True," part 5

It is true that the man jumped on the block, triggering the sudden fall of the sun. Stomping desperately on the block, he succeeded in no more than to pump dim flickers on the horizon. The demons inside him saw their chance. Their only aim was to peek through his eyes. They saw thereby that they could do no harm to the man, who willed with all his might his complete erasure. We know this to be true.

"On What Is True," part 4

It is indeed true that the man jumped on the block and saw it was the last time. He was given three minutes to have his final thoughts. "What should I think about?" he wondered, "what could possibly be so significant to be justified as my final thoughts?" He began by thinking about how he could end his life even sooner than the little time that was left him. For, he feared more than anything that he would fail to think something worthy of these final moments. He picked up a rake and shook his head wearily. His final thought was "case". This in fact is how it did happen.

"On What Is True," part 3

It is true that the man jumped on the block and split it in two, falling endlessly but this time by his own volition. "To fall requires a ground somewhere," he thought. And truly he kept falling. All the prior times he fell it was because he sought a ground. He realizes now that he falls by his own force of propulsion. This is something we cannot deny.

“On What Is True,” part 2

The truth was revealed to me. This is what God said. The man jumped on a block and fried his eggs. He looked out the window to see the water sprinkling the lawn. The ground became covered in worms. They tied into knots and died. The man felt his hands shake. He took an old record and played it. He began to see his future. Everything he did not want to happen did happen in his dream, “but will it?” he wondered? He put on strong boots and went to his attic. Sun shone through a small window, illuminating the floating dust. He saw his old things. Everything that he wanted to happen, did happen, as far as he could see. He stared at his old things as the sun fell, not moving except for his mind. He was shocked by how many times he had died throughout his life. “It's not fair,” he said aloud, banging his hand on something firm, “it's not fair that there is an end to death.” This God did tell me.

“On What Is True,” part 1

It is true that the man jumped on the block then built a house then his wife dies then he buys a convertible then he runs over a frog then he stops his car, gets out, takes the dead frog, buries it in the desert sand then gets back into his car, turns on the radio and hears “To My Friend” by Leslie West and is shocked that someone else knows this song and wanted to play it, because it was important to him, then the jockey explains at the end of the song that his wife died and he needed to hear that song, then the man stopped his car, got out, and dug a hole in the ground, then said a silent, wordless prayer, and buried nothing. It is true.