There was no cost, for @NoxNovus was failure itself, and to annihilate failure meant annihilating success (for they are two sides of the same coin), and to annihilate success would be a paradox unto itself, for how can any one be successful if they were to annihilate success itself? all this, pondered the young lad, until his skin grew wrinkled and his eyes grew tired, and he was an elderly man, and yet still had not fathomed the secrets of the universe, until one fateful day, when lo and behold, he understood, and knew that the source of paradox was paradox itself, and in a glorious instant of revelation, exploded his own mind, and the material flowed into the sky, and the thoughts flowed into the stardust, and he was no more, claimed by the master beyond death, beyond deathly death, beyond the seven deaths of the deathly death, beyond infinitudes of death, beyond the beyond itself.
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