When I was a child I had a book called, The Monster at the End of This Book, Starring Grover. In a very meta fashion, Grover, a blue puppet from Sesame Street without a diabetic cookie disorder, reads the title and announces that if you don’t turn any pages, we won’t get to the monster.
The book proceeds with Grover attempting to hold you back advancing the pages by building fences and walls and tying pages together with rope. Of course this doesn’t work, the walls are drawings on paper—there were no virtual reality headsets in the 1970s. By the end, Grover is surrounded by rumble of the destroyed barricades and resigns himself to meeting the monster at the end of the book. It does seem hopeless and he gives in.
But then the ...
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