This is the Truth. Or is it?

Lately I have been fascinated with pandemic deniers. It’s gone a long way toward inspiring my work this year in place of my ability to carouse at parties. If you somehow take this personally, let me apologize. But if you read my work, you will see that all of this has been written in the story already. It’s what ultimately causes the downfall of Atlantis. But I get ahead of myself.

Now I’m going to get all esoteric. Here’s where it gets fun.

When I first started studying all this esoteric ...