The Monotony of Everlasting

For his entire life, Nicholas has been consumed by the pursuit of one single goal. The only goal that has forever evaded him. He wishes for nothing but the finality of a true death.

Embarking on a journey across every corner of the world, spanning thousands of years of human existence and beyond, Nicholas searches to find the cure for his immortality that he sees as a curse. Taking him through the bloody battles of the Crusades to the modern wars of the world, to the frontlines of The Black Death, to encounters with ancient mystics, religious and spiritual teachers, Enlightenment Era thieves, frauds and murderers, an instrumental and elusive genius, a humble pawnshop owner, and an eccentric artist of the apocalypse, all born centuries apart, Nicholas comes to learn the purpose of humanity and the universe as he discovers his mysterious but integral role in its very existence.

Jack Moody’s novella The Monotony of Everlasting is the surreal adventure of one man to find meaning in the passage of time, the persistence of memory, and the cyclical, frightening nature of human beings and the lives we lead, so he can at last reach the door to the end of eternity that he’s been chasing from time immemorial.